Guy Welton (born 4 May 1978) was an 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 right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. He played First-class cricket for
Nottinghamshire, and also played for Lincolnshire, and
Derbyshire's Second XI.
Prior to beginning in first-class cricket, he played for
Worcestershire's Second XI, debuting with a duck in an innings defeat against
Surrey
Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. ...
. He played extensively with the Second XI teams of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, and played his debut First-class match in 1997. Despite appearing early in his Second XI career as a tailend batsman, he began his first-class career as a powerful and sometimes high-scoring hitter. He ended with a first-class average of over 25, and a top-score of 200.*
In local domestic cricket, he currently plays for
Caythorpe Cricket Club in the
Nottinghamshire Cricket Board Premier League. He also spent two years on the MCC Groundstaff as a Young Professional whilst also on the books of Grimsby Town FC as a promising Goalkeeper, playing for the Reserves at 14 years of age.
References
External links
Guy Weltonat Cricket Archive
1978 births
Living people
English cricketers
Nottinghamshire cricketers
Lincolnshire cricketers
Place of birth missing (living people)
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