Adam Peter Mansfield (born 21 August 1991) is an

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former first-class

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er. Mansfield was born at Bury St Edmunds in August 1991. He was educated at the

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, before going up to

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. While studying at Anglia Ruskin, he made two appearances in

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officia ...

for Cambridge MCCU in 2014, against Surrey and

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. He scored 38 runs in these matches, with a high score of 31

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. In addition to playing first-class cricket, Mansfield also played

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for Suffolk from 2011 to 2019, making 31 appearances in the Minor Counties Championship, eighteen appearances in the

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, and sixteen appearances in the Minor Counties T20.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mansfield, Adam 1991 births Living people Sportspeople from Bury St Edmunds Alumni of Anglia Ruskin University English cricketers Suffolk cricketers Cambridge MCCU cricketers