John Richard Savin (born 23 November 1942) is a former English
cricket
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er. Savin was a right-handed
batsman
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who bowled right-arm
fast-medium
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. He was born at
Malmesbury
Malmesbury () is a town and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England, which lies approximately west of Swindon, northeast of Bristol, and north of Chippenham. The older part of the town is on a hilltop which is almost surrounded by the upp ...
,
Wiltshire
Wiltshire (; abbreviated to Wilts) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It borders Gloucestershire to the north, Oxfordshire to the north-east, Berkshire to the east, Hampshire to the south-east, Dorset to the south, and Somerset to ...
.
Savin made his
Minor Counties Championship
The NCCA 3 Day Championship or National County Championship is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national counties (previously ca ...
debut for
Wiltshire
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in 1963 against
Dorset
Dorset ( ; Archaism, archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, t ...
. From 1963 to 1978, he represented the county in 57 Minor Counties Championship matches, the last of which came against
Berkshire
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.
Savin also represented Wiltshire in
List-A
List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numb ...
matches. His debut List-A match came against
Hampshire
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in the
1964 Gillette Cup
The 1964 Gillette Cup was the second Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 25 April and 5 September 1964, and was won by the defending champions Sussex.
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. His second also came against Hampshire in the
1972 Gillette Cup
The 1972 Gillette Cup was the tenth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 5 July and 2 September 1972. The tournament was won by Lancashire County Cricket Club who defeated Warwickshire County Cri ...
, with his third and final List-A match coming also against Hampshire in the
1967 Gillette Cup
The 1967 Gillette Cup was the fifth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 23 April and 2 September 1967. The tournament was won by Kent County Cricket Club who defeated Somerset County Cricket Club ...
. In his 3 List-A matches, he scored 21 runs at a
batting average
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Cricket
In cricket, a player's batting average is ...
of 7.00, with a high score of 18. In the field he took a single
catch. With the ball he took a single wicket at a
bowling average
In cricket, a player's bowling average is the number of runs they have conceded per wicket taken. The lower the bowling average is, the better the bowler is performing. It is one of a number of statistics used to compare bowlers, commonly use ...
of 111.00, with best figures of 1/46.
List-A Batting and Fielding For Each Team by John Savin
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References
External links
at Cricinfo
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John Savin
at CricketArchive
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1942 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Malmesbury
English cricketers
Wiltshire cricketers
Cricketers from Wiltshire
20th-century English sportsmen