David Robert Clarke (born 26 June 1967) is a former English

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er. Clarke was a right-handed

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who bowled right-arm

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. He was born in

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Northamptonshire Northamptonshire ( ; abbreviated Northants.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincolnshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshi ...

. Clarke made his debut 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 ...

in the 1991

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against

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. He played

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cricket for Bedfordshire from 1992 to 2003, which included 37 Minor Counties Championship matches and 29

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matches. He made his

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debut for Bedfordshire against

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in the 1994 NatWest Trophy. He played 13 further List A matches for Bedfordshire, the last coming against

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in the 1st round of the 2004 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy which was held in 2003. In his 14 matches, Dalton scored 514 runs at a

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of 51.40. He scored 2 half centuries and made a single

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, making an unbeaten score of 176 against the

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in the 1st round of the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Clarke, David 1967 births Living people Cricketers from Kettering English cricketers Bedfordshire cricketers 20th-century English sportsmen