John Keith Sheridan Edwards (born 26 August 1951) is a former English
cricket
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er. Edwards was a right-handed
batsman
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who bowled right-arm
medium pace. He was born in
Brampton
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,
Cumberland
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.
Edwards made his debut for
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire (, abbreviated ''Bucks'') is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-east, Hertfordshir ...
in the 1971
Minor Counties Championship against
Suffolk
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. Edwards played
Minor counties
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cricket for Buckinghamshire from 1971 to 1986, which included 109 Minor Counties Championship matches and 4
MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. In 1972, he made his
List A
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debut for Buckinghamshire against
Cambridgeshire
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in the
Gillette Cup. He played 4 further List A matches for Buckinghamshire, the last coming against
Suffolk
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in the
1979 Gillette Cup.
It wasn't for Buckinghamshire that the majority of his List A appearances came for, he also played List A cricket for
Minor Counties West and
Minor Counties South, which accounted for 12 of his matches. He played for these teams in the
1973
Events January
* January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 14 - The 16-0 19 ...
,
1974 and
1976 Benson & Hedges Cup's.
In total, he played 17 List A matches, scoring 258 runs at a
batting average of 16.12, with a high score of 41.
References
External links
Keith Edwardsat
ESPNcricinfo
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Keith Edwardsat CricketArchive
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1951 births
Living people
People from Brampton, Carlisle
Cricketers from Cumbria
English cricketers
Buckinghamshire cricketers
Minor Counties cricketers
20th-century English sportsmen