- Mark Harman (cricketer)
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Mark Harman Personal information Full name Mark David Harman Born 30 June 1964
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, EnglandBatting style Right-handed Bowling style Right-arm off-break Role Bowler Domestic team information Years Team 1986–87 Somerset 1988–89 Kent First-class cricket debut 20 August 1986 Somerset v Sussex Last First-class cricket 20 June 1989 Kent v Somerset List A cricket debut 24 June 1987 Somerset v Buckinghamshire Last List A cricket 21 August 1988 Kent v Gloucestershire Career statistics Competition First-class List A Matches 23 4 Runs scored 201 10 Batting average 12.56 5.00 100s/50s –/– –/– Top score 41 8* Balls bowled 3311 156 Wickets 43 3 Bowling average 31.60 49.66 5 wickets in innings 3 – 10 wickets in match – – Best bowling 5/55 2/58 Catches/stumpings 16/– 1/– Source: CricketArchive, 27 May 2011 Mark David Harman (born 30 June 1964) played first-class and List A cricket for Somerset in 1986 and 1987 and for Kent in 1988 and 1989.[1] He was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
Harman was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-spin bowler. He played for Somerset's second eleven before he was 17, but had to wait more than five years before he made a first-team appearance: the stumbling-block to his career was the presence in the Somerset side of Vic Marks, a much better batsman and an occasional Test off-spinner.[2] In two seasons of first-team cricket with Somerset, Harman played only nine first-class and three limited-overs matches, and took just eight first-class wickets and only one in List A games. His best bowling for Somerset was only two for 38, though he did make his highest first-class score, 41, in the match against Kent at Bath.[3] At the end of the 1987 season, he took up a contract with Kent.
The move to Kent brought somewhat more regular first-team cricket, though Harman was largely restricted to the first-class team, playing only one List A match in his two years with the county. The 1988 season brought his two best bowling performances. Against Oxford University he took five wickets for 55 runs.[4] Then in August he took five Leicestershire second-innings wickets out of the seven that fell in a drawn match.[5] Having played in half of Kent's first-class matches in 1988, however, Harman reverted to being a fringe player in 1989: he had his best match return with nine wickets for 136 runs in the game against Cambridge University.[6] But was picked for only one other match, and at the end of the season he left the staff to take up a career in accountancy.[2]
References
- ^ "Mark Harman". www.cricketarchive.com. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3603/3603.html. Retrieved 2011-05-25.
- ^ a b David Foot and Ivan Ponting. Somerset Cricket: A Post-War Who's Who (1993 ed.). Redcliffe Books. p. 54. ISBN 1 872971 23 7.
- ^ "Scorecard: Somerset v Kent". www.cricketarchive.com. 1987-06-17. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/48/48775.html. Retrieved 2011-05-26.
- ^ "Scorecard: Oxford University v Kent". www.cricketarchive.com. 1988-05-18. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/49/49922.html. Retrieved 2011-05-26.
- ^ "Scorecard: Kent v Leicestershire". www.cricketarchive.com. 1988-08-03. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/50/50370.html. Retrieved 2011-05-26.
- ^ "Scorecard: Cambridge University v Kent". www.cricketarchive.com. 1989-05-17. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/51/51216.html. Retrieved 2011-05-26.
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