Darren Charles Gerard (born 17 April 1984) is a
cricket
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er who represented
Oxford University
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in matches against
Cambridge University
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in 2004 and 2006.
Early and personal life
Gerard was born in
Barnet, Hertfordshire
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, England, and is Jewish. He attended Lochinver House School,
Haileybury College
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, and
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
St Edmund Hall (also known as The Hall and Teddy Hall) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. The college claims to be "the oldest surviving academic society to house and educate undergraduates in any university" and was the las ...
.
Cricket career
In the 2004 contest at
Lord's
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he took 5/29 as Oxford won by eight wickets. Gerard was used as a net bowler by England during their tour of South Africa in 2004/05.
Gerard led the Great Britain cricket squad at the
2005 Maccabiah Games
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in Israel, where they gained a bronze medal, their first in over 12 years at the Games.
In 2006 he made his
first-class debut, taking 2/25.
In 2008, he was named along with
Mark Bott and
Jason Molins to the Maccabi GB cricket team to represent the United Kingdom at the
2009 Maccabiah Games
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.
In 2016, Gerard made his debut on the US Cricket team with a loss to the British Army.
Paceman Gerard leads medal charge
, ''The Jewish Chronicle
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The newspaper is published every Fri ...
'', Retrieved on 18 February 2009
See also
* List of select Jewish cricketers
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gerard, Darren
1984 births
Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Living people
Jewish cricketers
People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College
Oxford University cricketers
Competitors at the 2005 Maccabiah Games
Maccabiah Games medalists in cricket
Maccabiah Games bronze medalists for Great Britain
Competitors at the 2009 Maccabiah Games
People from Chipping Barnet
Cricketers from the London Borough of Barnet
English cricketers
Jewish English sportspeople