Edward Kevin Sample (born 19 February 1961) is an English former

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. Sample was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. He was born in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire. Sample made his debut for

Cumberland Cumberland ( ) is a historic county in the far North West England. It covers part of the Lake District as well as the north Pennines and Solway Firth coast. Cumberland had an administrative function from the 12th century until 1974. From 19 ...

in the 1980

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 ...

against Lincolnshire. Sample played Minor counties cricket for Cumberland from 1980 to 1992, including 31 Minor Counties Championship matches and 4 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. In 1985, he made his

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debut against Middlesex in the NatWest Trophy. He played two further List A matches for Cumberland, against Lancashire in

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and Essex in

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. In his three List A matches, he scored 5 runs at a batting average of 2.50, with a high score of 4. With the ball he took 7 wickets at a

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of 21.57. His best bowling figures of 4/58 came against Middlesex in 1985. He also played for a number of first-class counties Second XI's. These included the Warwickshire Second XI, the Worcestershire Second XI, the Derbyshire Second XI and the Glamorgan Second XI.

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Kevin Sample
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