Graham Barry Stevenson (16 December 1955 – 21 January 2014) was an English
cricket
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er, who played in two
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and four
One Day International
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s from 1980 to 1981.
His
county cricket
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career was spent mainly with
Yorkshire and, latterly,
Northamptonshire.
Life and career
Stevenson was born in 1955 in
Ackworth,
West Riding of Yorkshire.
He was a right-armed
fast bowler, who also found occasional success as a right-handed
lower order batsman, and very occasional
wicket-keeper; playing for
Yorkshire from 1973 to 1986, and for
Northamptonshire in 1987. Stevenson took 488
first-class wickets in 188 games at an average of 28.84, with an additional 307 wickets in the
one day game. He scored two first-class centuries, with a top score of 115 not out. With that innings, Stevenson became only the eighth No. 11 to make a first-class hundred, in a partnership of 149 with
Geoffrey Boycott against
Warwickshire at
Edgbaston in 1982. That partnership remains Yorkshire's all-time record for the tenth wicket.
Stevenson made all his international appearances on tour with England. He travelled to
Australia
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and
India in 1979–80, and to the
West Indies in 1980–81. He made his One Day International debut in Australia, in the
World Series Cup, taking four wickets and scoring 28 not out in a winning cause.
Stevenson died of complications of a stroke on 21 January 2014.
He was 58.
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1955 births
2014 deaths
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Northamptonshire cricketers
Yorkshire cricketers
People from Ackworth, West Yorkshire
Sportspeople from the City of Wakefield
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Young England cricketers
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