Harvey Russell John Trump (born 11 October 1968) is a former English

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er who played for

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between 1988 and 1996. Trump, the son of

Gerald Trump Gerald Trump (born 10 August 1937) was an English cricketer, schoolmaster and the founder, and headmaster, of Edington School. He was a medium pace seam bowler who generally opened the bowling. He played for Devon and Somerset second XI between ...

, a former captain of both Somerset's Second XI and of

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side, was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a right-arm

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bowler. A successful school cricketer at

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, he played for England's Under-19 team in

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in Sri Lanka in 1986–87. In these three matches, he took seven wickets and also scored an unbeaten 50 in the final match at

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. He made his debut for Somerset in 1988 and played fairly regularly for nine seasons, without ever quite appearing to make the decisive breakthrough to be an automatic selection. His most successful seasons were 1991 and 1992: he took around 50 first-class wickets in each season and in 1992 against

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, in the last first-class match played at the

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, he took seven for 52 in each innings to give both his best innings and match figures. But the following year Somerset recruited Mushtaq Ahmed as the county's overseas player and Trump's opportunities were more limited. Also, his batting never developed, and he failed to reach 50 in first-class matches. He did not appear in first-class matches after 1996 and played only a few more List A games before retiring to become, like his father, a schoolteacher. He has since played a few times for

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in the Minor Counties. His son, Henry Searle (né Trump), is a tennis player.

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