Richard Hodgkinson (born 9 December 1983) is an 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 is a right-handed

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and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. Born in

Mansfield Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of the Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area and the second largest settlement in Nottinghamshire (following the city ...

, Hodgkinson joined

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in 2003, but failed to achieve a first-team debut for some time due to a serious ankle injury. He left Nottinghamshire in 2005. In 2007, Hodgkinson played his first game for

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.Richard Hodgkinson at Cricket Archive
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