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David Jonathan Peter Boden (born 26 November 1970) is a former English
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er. Boden was a right-handed
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who bowled right-arm
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. He was born in
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, Staffordshire. Boden made his debut in
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for
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in a first-class match against
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. In what was his only senior appearance for the county, Boden took 4 wickets in the Oxford first-innings, with Simon Almaer being his maiden first-class wicket. He went wicket-less in the Oxford second-innings. He later joined
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, who he made his debut for against
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in 1992. He appeared in 2 further first-class matches for the county, both coming in the 1993 County Championship against Middlesex and
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, with Boden taking 3 wickets at an expensive
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of 86.00. It was for Essex that he made his
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debut for in the
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against
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. He made 3 further List A appearances for Essex, all coming in 1993, with his final appearance coming against Middlesex. Again, his bowling came without great success, with Boden taking 4 wickets at an average of 40.50 in limited-overs cricket for Essex. Leaving Essex at the end of the 1994 season, Boden joined
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in 1995. His first-class debut for the county came against
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in the
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. He made 2 further first-class appearances for Gloucestershire, against Oxford University in 1995 and the touring
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in 1996. He took 8 wickets in his 3 first-class appearances for the county, which came at an average of 40.87, with best figures of 3/38. He made 4 List A appearances for the county, with 3 coming in the 1995 AXA Equity & Law League and one against
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in the
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. In these 4 matches, he took 9 wickets at an average of 14.33, with best figures of 6/26, which came against Suffolk. Leaving Gloucestershire at the end of the 1996 season, Boden joined
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, with him making his debut for the county in the 1997
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against
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. He played
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cricket for Staffordshire from 1997 to 2000, which included 21 Minor Counties Championship matches and 4
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matches. He made his first List A appearance for the county against
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in the 1998 NatWest Trophy, with Boden making 3 further List A appearances for the county. He struggled with the ball in these matches, taking just a single wicket for an overall cost of 172 runs. In 2001, he joined
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, with Boden making his debut for the county against
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in the 2001 Minor Counties Championship. He played for Shropshire in 2001 and 2002, making 5 Minor Counties Championship appearances and 7 MCCA Knockout Trophy appearances. His only List A appearance for Shropshire came against Oxfordshire in the 2nd round of the
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, which was played in 2001. In this match, he was dismissed for 8 runs by Adam Cook, while with the ball he took the wickets of Craig Haupt and Timothy Smith, for the cost of 25 runs from 8 overs.


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