Gordon Albert Beet (5 May 1939 – 19 January 1994) was an English

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er who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire County Cricket Club between 1956 and 1961. Beet was born at

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. He started representing Derbyshire in the

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Championship in 1955, and played most of his matches for the second XI. He made two first-class appearances for Derbyshire in the 1956 season with his debut against

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when he made 4 runs in the only innings he played. His next first-class appearance was in a single match in the 1958 season. Three years later in the 1961 season, he played in two

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games and a match against

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. Beet was a right-handed batsman and played seven innings in six first-class matches with an average of 7.20 and a top score of 17. He was a slow left-arm bowler and took two first-class wickets for 100 runs.Gordon Beet at Cricket Archive
/ref> Beet died at Mansfield,

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at the age of 54. His grandfather, George Beet, Sr. and uncle George Beet, Jr. also played

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for Derbyshire.

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