Jason Michael Finch (born 27 September 1969) is an English former

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er. Finch played as a right-handed batsman, who began as a

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and went on to play

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as a batsman and an off-break bowler. He was born at

Hastings Hastings () is a large seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England, east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

Finch played for

Sussex County Cricket Club Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Sussex. Its limited overs team is called the Sussex Sharks. The c ...

's Second XI, including in fixtures against Oxford and Cambridge University and the Combined Services in 1990 and 1991, and for

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in three List A matches in 2001 and 2002.Jason Finch
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2021-07-11. Growing up, Finch played in all the Sussex age groups and was selected for England under-15 and under-17 sides. In 1998 he played for the British Police. Finch played club cricket for

Hastings and St Leonards Priory Cricket Club Hastings and St Leonards Priory Cricket Club (often shortened down to Hastings Priory) is a cricket club in Hastings, East Sussex. The club is based at Horntye Park, where the 1st XI and 2nd XI play their home fixtures. The club has fifteen teams ...

in the

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where he has won seven premier league titles. His son,

Harry Finch Harry Alfred Finch (1907–1949) was a professional rugby league footballer in Australia's leading competition - the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership in the 1920s and 1930s. Finch was also an Australian Kangaroos, Australi ...

, has played

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for Sussex and

Kent County Cricket Club Kent County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Kent. A club representing the county was first founded in 1842 but Ke ...

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