Duncan Christopher Perry (born 9 September 1962) 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. He was a left-handed batsman and left-arm medium-fast bowler who played for
Shropshire
Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to th ...
. He was born in
Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...
and educated at the
Wakeman Grammar School in
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury ( , also ) is a market town, civil parish, and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, north-west of London; at the 2021 census, it had a population of 76,782. The town's name can be pronounced as either 'Sh ...
.
Perry, who represented Leicestershire Second XI between 1979 and 1981, played for Shropshire in the Minor Counties Championship in 1983 and 1987, while playing at club level for
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury ( , also ) is a market town, civil parish, and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, north-west of London; at the 2021 census, it had a population of 76,782. The town's name can be pronounced as either 'Sh ...
. He made a single List A appearance for the team, in the 1983 NatWest Trophy competition, against
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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. From the tailend, Perry scored 5 runs, and took bowling figures of 2-30.
Shropshire v Somerset, National Westminster Bank Trophy 1983 (1st Round)
CricketArchive, Retrieved 22 April 2009
References
External links
at Cricket Archive
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1962 births
Living people
English cricketers
Shropshire cricketers
Cricketers from Manchester
Hertfordshire cricketers