Daniel Steven Bendon (born 12 January 1989) is an English former first-class

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er. Bendon was born at

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in January 1989. He was educated in Northamptonshire at the Burton Latimer School and the Sir Christopher Hatton School, before going up to

Cardiff University Cardiff University () is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales. It was established in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and became a founding college of the University of Wales in 1893. It was renamed Unive ...

. While studying at Cardiff, he made a single appearance in

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adju ...

for Cardiff MCCU against

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It is bordered by Staffordshire and Leicestershire to the north, Northamptonshire to the east, Ox ...

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in 2012. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed without scoring by Tom Milnes in the Cardiff first-innings, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 5 runs by the same bowler. In Warwickshire's only innings, he took the wicket of

Jim Troughton Jamie Oliver Troughton (born 2 March 1979) is an English cricket coach and former cricketer. He is currently Assistant Coach at Surrey, and as a player was mainly an attack-minded left-handed batsman and an occasional slow left-arm orthodox bow ...

, taking figures of 1 for 33. In addition to playing first-class cricket, Bendon also played

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for

Bedfordshire Bedfordshire (; abbreviated ''Beds'') is a Ceremonial County, ceremonial county in the East of England. It is bordered by Northamptonshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Hertfordshire to the south and the south-east, and Buckin ...

from 2007–2012, making fifteen appearances in the

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and fifteen appearances in the

MCCA Knockout Trophy The National Counties Cricket Association Knockout Cup was started in 1983 as a knockout one-day competition for the National Counties in English cricket. At first it was known as the ''English Industrial Estates Cup'', before being called the ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bendon, Dan 1989 births Living people Cricketers from Kettering Alumni of Cardiff University English cricketers Bedfordshire cricketers Cardiff MCCU cricketers