John Andrew Simpson (born 13 July 1988) is an English

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er who plays for

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. Simpson is a wicket-keeper and left-handed batsman who won the

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Award in 2004 at Lancashire, and 2011 at Middlesex. He made his international debut for the England cricket team in July 2021.

Career

Domestic career

Simpson represented England U19s on tour to India in 2004/05 aged 16 and again in 2005/06 on a tour to Bangladesh. For the 2007 season he joined Lancashire on a scholarship, he played second XI cricket for Lancashire, Durham and Nottinghamshire during the campaign. In 2009 he made his professional debut when selected for Middlesex's Twenty20 match against

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. On 9 April 2010, Simpson made his first-class debut against Worcestershire at New Road. He made 20 in the first and 0 in the second innings as Middlesex were beaten by 111 runs, he did however take 5 catches behind the stumps. Simpson averaged 18.05 in the 2012 season, with no hundreds or fifties. However, in the opening round of matches of the

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, Simpson made 97 not out for Middlesex. In 2018, he played for Brothers Union in the

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in Bangladesh. He was signed by

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for

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tournament. In April 2022, he was bought by the

for the 2022 season of

International career

In July 2021, Simpson was named in England's

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(ODI) squad for their series against Pakistan, after the original squad for the tour was forced to withdraw following positive tests for COVID-19. Simpson made his ODI debut on 8 July 2021, for England against Pakistan.

Family links to other sports

Simpson is the grandson and great-grandson of two former professional rugby league footballers who were regarded as two of the best s in the game at their times. His great-grandfather,

Walter Gowers Walter Gowers (first ¼ 1903 – third ¼ 1965) was a professional rugby league and association football (soccer) footballer who played in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. He played representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain (non-Test ...

, played as a for Rochdale Hornets during the

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as well as being selected for the Great Britain touring squad to Australasia in 1928 even though he did not actually play at test match level. Simpson's grandfather,

Ken Gowers J. Kenneth Gowers (15 October 1936 – 19 October 2017) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He played at representative level for Great Britain (vice-captain), England and Rugby League X ...

(Walter's son) was the outstanding for Swinton from the 1950s to the 1970s. Ken was one of several Swinton players who were capped for Great Britain during the 1960s when the Lions' ground Station Road was the scene of many great Lions' victories in the club's postwar ''"swinging sixties"'' decade. Ken Gowers was also a useful cricketer. He would often change from the oval ball game to the summer game after rugby league fixtures were completed each spring. John Simpson's father Jack Simpson played Lacrosse for England and Rochdale for whom he played in two world championships.

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