Richard Halsall
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| Full name | Richard Grant Halsall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 October 1968 Salisbury, Rhodesia |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bangladesh fielding coach | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2000–2001 | Sussex Cricket Board | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Cambridge University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1993/94 | Mashonaland Country Districts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricinfo, 23 October 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Richard Grant Halsall (born 1 October 1968) is a former Zimbabwean cricketer. Halsall was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. He was born at Salisbury, Rhodesia (today Harare, Zimbabwe).
Halsall made his debut in first-class cricket for Mashonaland Country Districts against Mashonaland Under-24s in the 1993/94 Logan Cup. This was the only first-class match he played in Zimbabwe.[1]
His next appearance in first-class cricket came for Cambridge University in English county cricket. His first-class debut for the University came against Lancashire in 1999. During the 1999 season, he represented the University in 7 first-class matches, the last of which came against Oxford University.[2] In his combined total of 8 first-class matches, he scored 171 runs at a batting average of 19.00, with a single half century high score of 76. In the field he took 5 catches. With the ball he took 13 wickets at a bowling average of 44.38, with best figures of 3/64.
Halsall later represented the Sussex Cricket Board in List A cricket. His debut List A match came against Herefordshire in the 2000 NatWest Trophy. From 2000 to 2001, he represented the Board in 5 List A matches, the last of which came against the Essex Cricket Board in 1st round of the 2002 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy which was held in 2001.[3] In his 5 List A matches, he scored 36 runs at an average of 18.00, with a high score of 17.[4] With the ball he took 5 wickets at an average of 20.60, with best figures of 4/34.[5]
Coaching career
After a spell coaching at Sussex, Halsall was in 2007 appointed as the first full-time fielding coach of the England national cricket team,[6] After his contract expired on 3 October with the ECB, he joined as the fielding coach of the Bangladesh national cricket team[7] for the next two years.
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External links
- EngvarB from May 2013
- Use dmy dates from May 2013
- Pages using infobox cricketer with a blank name parameter
- 1968 births
- Rhodesian people of British descent
- White Zimbabwean people
- White Rhodesian people
- Zimbabwean emigrants to the United Kingdom
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Harare
- Zimbabwean cricketers
- Mashonaland cricketers
- Cambridge University cricketers
- Sussex Cricket Board cricketers
- Coaches of the England cricket team
- Zimbabwean cricket coaches
