Adam Bramley Byram (born 17 March 1971) is a former English
cricket
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er. Byram was a left-handed
batsman
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who bowled
slow left-arm orthodox
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Left-arm orthodox spin is bowled by a left-arm bowler using the fingers to spin ...
. He was born in
Wellington
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,
Shropshire
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and educated at
Shrewsbury College
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Previously called Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology and, earlier, Shrewsbury Technical College, the college is base ...
.
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Byram made his debut for
Shropshire
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in the 1989
Minor Counties Championship against
Oxfordshire. Byram played
Minor counties
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cricket for Shropshire from 1989 to 2002, which included 96 Minor Counties Championship appearances
and 33
MCCA Knockout Trophy
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appearances.
He made his
List A debut against
Derbyshire
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in the
1990 NatWest Trophy
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. He made 12 further List A appearances, the last of which came against
Gloucestershire
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The county town is the city of Gl ...
in
2002 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy. In his 13 List A matches, he scored 127 runs at an
average
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of 14.11, with a high score of 32
not out
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Occurrence
At least one batter is not out at t ...
. With the ball, he took 14 wickets at a
bowling average of 33.21, with best figures of 4/24.
In 2003, he played Minor counties cricket for
Staffordshire, making a couple of appearances each in the Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy.
Byram also played for Second XI teams of
Warwickshire
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,
Lancashire
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The non-metropolitan county of Lancash ...
,
Worcestershire
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and
Glamorgan. At club level he played in Shropshire for
Wellington
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.
[
His brother, ]Gavin
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, also played Minor counties and List A cricket for Shropshire.
References
External links
Adam Byram
at ESPNcricinfo
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Adam Byram
at CricketArchive
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1971 births
Living people
People from Wellington, Shropshire
English cricketers
Shropshire cricketers
Staffordshire cricketers
Cricketers from Shropshire