Simon Base (born 1960) is a retired English

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...

er. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who played first-class cricket between 1981 and 1999. Base was born in

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, Kent, but first represented Western Province South Africa in 1981 before moving back to England to commence his county career; He initially played for Glamorgan in 1986 and later

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. He also played for Boland and Border Provinces in South Africa. Base took 388 first-class wickets and 221

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wickets, and was part of the Derbyshire side which won the

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in 1990. In 1989, he toured the

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with the England A team, taking three wickets in two limited-over matches against a Netherlands XI.

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at CricketArchive 1960 births English cricketers Living people Western Province cricketers Glamorgan cricketers Boland cricketers Derbyshire cricketers Border cricketers Worcestershire cricketers Cricketers from Maidstone {{England-cricket-bio-1960s-stub