David Sales

David Sales

Personal information
Full name	David John Grimwood Sales
Born	3 December 1977 (1977-12-03) (age 33) Surrey, England
Nickname	Jumble, Car Boot
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Batting style	Right Handed
Bowling style	Right Arm Medium
Role	Middle Order Batsman
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1994–	Northamptonshire (squad no. 5)
2001–2002	Wellington
Career statistics
Competition	FC	LA	T20
Matches	212	246	56
Runs scored	12,293	6,902	1,209
Batting average	39.65	34.51	29.48
100s/50s	24/59	4/49	–/10
Top score	303*	161	78*
Balls bowled	345	84	12
Wickets	9	–	1
Bowling average	20.44	–	23.00
5 wickets in innings	–	–	–
10 wickets in match	–	–	–
Best bowling	4/25	–	1/10
Catches/stumpings	200/–	109/–	28/–
Source: Cricinfo, 25 June 2011

David John Grimwood Sales (born 3 December 1977 in Carshalton, Surrey) is an English cricket player who has played for the cricket teams of Northamptonshire, England A and Wellington.

Domestic career

David impressed as a youngster, when as a 16 year old one day debutant, he became the youngest scorer of a half-century in the Sunday league. He then scored 0 and 210 not out on his first class debut for Northamptonshire against Worcestershire at Kidderminster in 1996, at 18 years 237 days, he is the youngest to score a double hundred in the Championship. In the same year he received the NBC Denis Compton Award. The 210* was not his highest score however, he has passed 200 six other times including a triple century against Essex in 1999 at the age of 21.^[1] Also in 1999, David became Northamptonshire's youngest receiver of a county cap. In the English winter of 2001, he joined Wellington cricket club in New Zealand for a year. Whilst still at Northampton, he was made captain in 2004 when he was 26 replacing Mike Hussey who had left the previous year. While as captain he continued to score at an average of over 40, but in 2008, he chose to step down from the role prematurely to concentrate on his batting and boost his chances of playing for England.^[2] He was replaced by Nicky Boje for the start of the 2008 season. But the following season, he was ruled out in March with injury until 2010.^[3] In January 2010, Sales along with new team-mate James Middlebrook, was picked to represent the MCC against Durham in Abu Dhabi.^[4] This was his first game since his injury back in 2009.

International career

Tipped for England honours early in his career, he played for the Under 19's whilst in his last year of compulsory education and made the step up a year later playing for England A. However, on an 'A' tour to the West Indies, he sustained ligament damage to his knee playing beach Volleyball before even playing a game and missed the whole of the 2001 English season.^[5]

References

1. ^ Fletcher, Iain (1999-08-01) Sales of the centuries The Independent. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
2. ^ Sales steps down from Northants captaincy Cricinfo. 2008-01-30. Retrieved 2008-04-05.
3. ^ Northants ace Sales misses season BBC Sport. 2009-06-12. Retrieved 2009-06-12.
4. ^ MCC pick Northants' David Sales and James Middlebrook BBC Sport. 2010-01-27. Retrieved 2010-02-15.
5. ^ Randall, Charles (2001-01-03) January blues for poor Sales The Telegraph. Retrieved 2009-07-31.

External links

• Player Profile: David Sales from ESPNcricinfo
• Player Profile: David Sales from CricketArchive
• Player Profile: David Sales from northantscricket.com

Persondata
Name	Sales, David
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Date of birth	3 December 1977
Place of birth	Surrey
Date of death
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