Joshua Benjamin Thomas Arksey (born 20 December 1994) is an English former first-class

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. Arksey was born at Cambridge in December 1994. He was educated at Bottisham School, before going up to Anglia Ruskin University. While studying at Anglia Ruskin, Arksey made two appearances in first-class cricket for

Cambridge MCCU Cambridge University Cricket Club, first recorded in 1817, is the representative cricket club for students of the University of Cambridge. Depending on the circumstances of each individual match, the club has always been recognised as holding ...

against Northamptonshire in 2015, and Nottinghamshire in 2016. A slow left-arm orthodox bowler, Arksey took 7 wickets at an average of 29.28 in these two matches, with best figures of 3 for 41. In addition to playing first-class cricket, he also played

minor counties cricket The National Counties, known as the Minor Counties before 2020, are the cricketing counties of England and Wales that do not have first-class status. The game is administered by the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), which comes unde ...

for Cambridgeshire from 2014–18, making fourteen appearances in the

Minor Counties Championship The NCCA 3 Day Championship (previously the Minor Counties Cricket Championship) is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national cou ...

, seven appearances in the MCCA Knockout Trophy, and two appearances in the

Minor Counties T20 Minor may refer to: * Minor (law), a person under the age of certain legal activities. ** A person who has not reached the age of majority * Academic minor, a secondary field of study in undergraduate education Music theory * Minor chord ** Bar ...

References

External links

* 1994 births Living people Alumni of Anglia Ruskin University Cambridgeshire cricketers Cambridge MCCU cricketers English cricketers Cricketers from Cambridge {{England-cricket-bio-1990s-stub