Brian William Poll (5 January 1941 – 18 June 1999) was an English

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er. Poll was a right-handed

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who fielded as a

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. He was born in

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, Gloucestershire. Poll made his debut for

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in the 1966

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against

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. Poll played

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cricket for Buckinghamshire from 1966 to 1980, which included 131 Minor Counties Championship matches. In 1969, he made his

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debut against

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in the Gillette Cup. He played 7 further List A matches for Buckinghamshire, the last coming against

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in the 1979 Gillette Cup. He also played 2 List A matches for Minor Counties South in the 1972 Benson & Hedges Cup against

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and

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. In his total of 10 List A matches, he scored 73 runs at a

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of 14.60, with a high score of 23. Behind the

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he took 6 catches and made 2

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s. He died on 18 June 1999.

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