Graeme David Bridge (born 4 September 1980) is a former English

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officia ...

er. Born in Sunderland, Bridge is a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. He played for

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and the Durham Cricket Board for the entirety of his first-class career. His debut came in the AXA

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in 1999, where he took the wicket of

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. He never managed to establish himself on a regular basis and was released at the end of the 2006 season. Unable to find another club, he drifted away from the first-class game. He plays in the

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for Blaydon Cricket Club, which he has captained. Despite many games being abandoned due to rain, he was a leading wicket taker in the 2007 season, as he has been in most seasons.

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