David Harold Richardson Fairey (born 17 August 1940) is a former English

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er. Fairey was a right-handed batsman who bowled left-arm medium-pace. Born in Linton, Cambridgeshire, he was also a field hockey player. Fairey made his debut for Cambridgeshire in the 1957

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against

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. Fairey played Minor counties cricket for Cambridgeshire from 1957 to 1979, which included 88 Minor Counties Championship matches. In 1964, he made his

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debut against Essex in the Gillette Cup. He played five further List A matches for Cambridgeshire, the last coming against Northamptonshire in

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. In his six List A matches, he scored 72 runs at a batting average of 14.40, with a high score of 22. With the ball he took 3 wickets at a

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of 20.33, with best figures of 2/8. Outside of cricket, he played field hockey for Cambridgeshire and England. Fairey's father-in-law,

Maurice Crouch Maurice Alfred Crouch (9 August 1917 – 19 March 2001) was an English cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he was born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Crouch played most of his cricket for Cambridgeshire in the Minor Counties Championship, makin ...

, played List A and Minor counties cricket for Cambridgeshire, as well as first-class cricket for other teams.

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