Zachary Clegg Morris (born 4 September 1978) is an English former

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er who played first-class and List A one-day cricket for

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, in addition to playing for the England under-19 cricket team.

Cricket career

Morris was born in

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in September 1978. He first came to the attention of Yorkshire-based cricket coach Jack Sokell, who bought him to the attention of

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. He played for the Yorkshire Second XI, and between 1996 and 1998 he played Youth

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and

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cricket for the England under-19 cricket team. He joined

ahead of the 1998 season, alongside his brother,

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, and Yorkshire seamer Peter Hartley. He made his debut for Hampshire in a first-class match against

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in the 1998 County Championship, with him making a second first-class appearance in the 1999 County Championship against

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. Having begun his career as a slow left-arm orthodox bowler, he later switched to become a seam bowler. Two years would elapse before he next played for the Hampshire first team, when in 2001 he made his debut in List A one-day cricket against

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in the Benson & Hedges Cup. In his next one-day appearance against

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in the 2001 Norwich Union League, he took three wickets, including that of Graeme Hick, for the cost of 31 runs, in addition to hitting the winning runs. He made two further one-day appearances in 2001 in the Norwich Union League, against

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and

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. Morris was banned by Hampshire for three matches in July 2001, having pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk and disorderly at Southampton Magistrates Courts and fined £120, having been arrested after being seen urinating on a roundabout the month before. He did not play for Hampshire again and was released at the end of the season, alongside John Stephenson. In 2016, he was reported to be "living and working in his native Barnsley".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Morris, Zac 1978 births Living people Cricketers from Barnsley English cricketers Hampshire cricketers Hampshire Cricket Board cricketers