David James Millns (born 27 February 1965) is a first class

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and former English professional

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and Boland. Millns was a fast bowler, and a lower order batsman who was part of two championship winning sides with Leicestershire, in

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Playing career

His career spanned from 1988 until 2001. He is one of only a few cricketers in modern times to score a century and take ten wickets in the same county championship match (v Essex 1996). Having been told he would be playing for

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in 1992 he broke a bone in his foot and was not officially selected. Millns toured Australia with the England 'A' side that winter, although he had more success with the ball in one-day matches than in the first-class matches. He was Leicestershire's leading wicket taker (and the sixth nationally) in 1994, taking 76 wickets at 25.01, with many cricket writers believing he should have gone to Australia for the 1994/95 Ashes tour. His best all round season came in 1996, when he took 73 wickets and scored 424 runs, and again many cricket writers picked him on the winter tour to the West Indies.

Umpiring career

In 2007, he was selected in the reserve list as a first class umpire (cricket), umpire for the season of 2008 by ECB. In 2008, he was promoted to the first class umpire's list. He stood as an umpire in the 2014–16 ICC Women's Championship. He was selected as one of the two foreign umpires in the

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. In January 2022, he was named as one of the on-field umpires for the

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in the West Indies.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Millns, David 1965 births Living people English cricketers Nottinghamshire cricketers Leicestershire cricketers Boland cricketers Tasmania cricketers English cricket umpires People from Newark and Sherwood (district) Cricketers from Nottinghamshire English One Day International cricket umpires English Twenty20 International cricket umpires

Playing career

Umpiring career

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