Michael Richard Cronin (born 21 October 1941) is a retired English

cricket Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...

er. He was a left-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler who played for

Shropshire Shropshire (; abbreviated SalopAlso used officially as the name of the county from 1974–1980. The demonym for inhabitants of the county "Salopian" derives from this name.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West M ...

. He was born in

Bromyard Bromyard is a town in the parish of Bromyard and Winslow, in Herefordshire, England, in the valley of the River Frome, Herefordshire, River Frome. It is near the county border with Worcestershire on the A44 road, A44 between Leominster and Worc ...

Herefordshire Herefordshire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England, bordered by Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh ...

and educated at the Lady Hawkins Grammar School in Kington.Published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Cronin, who represented Shropshire in the Minor Counties Championship in 1988 and 1989, made a single List A appearance for the team, in the 1992 NatWest Trophy, while playing at club level for Newport in that county.''Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998'', pages 32,55. From the tailend, he scored a single run, and took one wicket. He was also a

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. He had played professionally for

Hereford United Hereford United Football Club was an association football club based in Hereford, England. They played at Edgar Street for their entire history. They were nicknamed 'The Whites' or 'The Lilywhites', after their predominantly white kit, or 'Th ...

and in county matches for Herefordshire.

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Michael Cronin
at Cricket Archive {{DEFAULTSORT:Cronin, Michael 1961 births Living people English cricketers Shropshire cricketers People from Bromyard Cricketers from Herefordshire 20th-century English sportsmen