David Millner (born 24 July 1938) is a former 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 who played first-class cricket for
Derbyshire between 1960 and 1964.
Millner was born in
Dove Holes,
Derbyshire. He played his first game for Derbyshire Club and Ground in 1954 at the age of 16 and played for the Second XI in the Minor Counties Championship from 1955. He moved up to the first team in the
1960 season, making his debut against
Worcestershire. He hit one of his two half-century innings in 1960 against
Essex. Millner played regularly in the
1961 season making his top score of 80 against
Kent. He spent 1962 out of first-class cricket, though he spent a small period of time covering in the Second XI. In the
1963 season, he played for the first team for some of the games and also took part in the
Gillette Cup. He appeared in the Gillette Cup again in the
1964 season but was otherwise in the second XI.
Millner was a right-handed batsman and played 56 innings in 31 first-class matches with an average of 12.74 and a top score of 80. He played two innings in two one day matches in which he made a total of 29. He was a right-arm off-break bowler and bowled six overs in first-class cricket without taking a wicket.
David Millner at Cricket Archive
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1938 births
People from High Peak, Derbyshire
Cricketers from Derbyshire
English cricketers
Living people
Derbyshire cricketers