Cristian Dominic Durant (born 23 January 1977) is an 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 striki ...

er. Durant is a right-handed batsman who fields primarily as a wicket-keeper. He was born in

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Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...

. Durant made his debut for Cambridgeshire in the 1996

Minor Counties Championship The NCCA 3 Day Championship (previously the Minor Counties Cricket Championship) is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national cou ...

against Northumberland. Between 1996 and 2001, he represented the county in 44 Championship matches, the last of which came against Northumberland. The following season he made his

List A List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...

debut for the county against Hampshire in the 1st round of the

1997 NatWest Trophy The 1997 NatWest Trophy was the 17th NatWest Trophy. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 24 June and 7 September 1997. The tournament was won by Essex County Cricket Club who defeated Warwickshire Co ...

. From 1997 to 2001, he represented the county in 7 List A matches, the last of which came against Somerset in the 3rd round of the

2001 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy The 2001 Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 1 May and 1 September 2001. It was the first Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy following its change of name from the NatWest Tro ...

. In his 7 List A matches, he scored 19 runs at a batting average of 9.50, with a high score of 12 *. Behind the

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he took 5

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and made 2

stumping Stumped is a method of dismissing a batsman in cricket, which involves the wicket-keeper putting down the wicket while the batsman is out of his ground. (The batsman leaves his ground when he has moved down the pitch beyond the popping crease ...

s. He had to wait until the 1999 season to play in the MCCA Knockout Trophy for Cambridgeshire, which he did against Norfolk before playing 4 further Trophy matches between 1999 and 2001, the last of which came against the Leicestershire Cricket Board. He also played Second XI cricket for the Nottinghamshire Second XI (1994), the Leicestershire Second XI (1994–1995), the Somerset Second XI (1997) and the Kent Second XI (1999).Teams Cristian Durant played for
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