Paul Antony Booth (born 5 September 1965, Crossland Moor,

Huddersfield Huddersfield is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confl ...

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, England) is a former English

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er. Booth was a

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ner and left-handed

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Career

At the age of nine he played for Meltham under-13s. When 16, he was apprenticed as a joiner, and was three days past his 17th birthday, he made his debut for

. He played twenty three games for Yorkshire from 1982 to 1989, and thirty seven for

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It is bordered by Staffordshire and Leicestershire to the north, Northamptonshire to the east, Ox ...

from 1990 to 1993, taking 107 wickets in his career at 40.19 with a best of 5 for 98. A lower order batsman, he made 830 runs in total, with a best of 62, at 13.38. He played in 19

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matches in his career, including games for the Yorkshire Cricket Board in 2000 and 2001. He represented England Young Cricketers in two Youth Test matches in the

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in 1984/85.

References

External links

Cricket Archive
{{DEFAULTSORT:Booth, Paul Yorkshire cricketers Warwickshire cricketers English cricketers Cricketers from Huddersfield 1965 births Living people Yorkshire Cricket Board cricketers English cricketers of 1969 to 2000 20th-century English sportsmen