Gareth Clough (born 23 May 1978, Leeds,

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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 ...

er. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He has played first-class cricket for both

(1998), and more regularly and recently, for

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(2000–2008). Clough played extensively throughout Nottinghamshire's promotion-winning season of 2004, earning a new contract until the end of 2006. Clough's tidy bowling and fielding agility made him useful in

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. It was in the one-day format where he was used most frequently in 2005, and despite only playing one game in Nottinghamshire's

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campaign, he remained useful in this format until his retirement in 2008. Clough played for

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in the

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in 2008 and 2009. Clough is now working as a teacher in a school in Batley. He decided to become a teacher after getting injured whilst he was playing cricket.

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