John Arthur William Fry (born 13 November 1961) is a former 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. Fry was a right-handed

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. He was born in

Streatham Streatham ( ) is a district in south London, England. Centred south of Charing Cross, it lies mostly within the London Borough of Lambeth, with some parts extending into the neighbouring London Borough of Wandsworth. Streatham was in Surrey ...

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. Fry represented the

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List A List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...

cricket. His debut List A match came against

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in the

1999 NatWest Trophy The 1999 NatWest Trophy was the 19th NatWest Trophy. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 4 May and 29 August 1999. The tournament was won by Gloucestershire who defeated Somerset by 50 runs in the fin ...

. From 1999 to 2002, he represented the Board in 4 List A matches, the last of which came against the

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which was held in 2002. In his 5 List A matches, he scored 161 runs at a

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of 40.25, with two half centuries and a high score of 90. In the field he took 3

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.List A Batting and Fielding For Each Team by John Fry
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