Lee Harvey Nurse (24 December 1976 – 9 April 2020) was an English

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er. The son of Leon Nurse, he was born at

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in December 1976. Nurse made his debut in

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for

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in the 1997

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against Dorset at Reading. He played for Berkshire until 2006, playing a total of 29 matches in the Minor Counties Championship and fifteen matches in the MCCA Knockout Trophy, which included one match for the

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in 1998 when he was having trials at

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. While playing for Berkshire, he played for the county in matches that held List A status in the domestic county one-day competition, making his List A debut against the

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at Hastings in the

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. He made a further six List A appearances for Berkshire, the last coming against first-class opposition in the form of Durham in the

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. His six List A matches yielded 182 runs at an average of 26.00 and a high score of 81. He died on 9 April 2020 at the

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during the coronavirus pandemic. His great-uncle, Seymour Nurse, played Test cricket for the West Indies.

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