Mark Beardshall (born 10 January 1962 in

Barnsley Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. As the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. In Barnsley, the population was 96,888 while the wider Borough has ...

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) was an English

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er. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for

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in 1987. Debuting in the

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two years previously for

, Beardshall soon moved to play for the Peakites, for whom he debuted with just short of a half-century in May 1987. He was promoted to the first team for the remainder of the 1987 season, making his debut first-class appearance against

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, although he failed to hold his own in the first team and went back to play with the Second XI. In the same year, he played in the Peakites' victorious 1987 Bane Dawes Trophy campaign, picking up four wickets against

. He was not to play first-class cricket again after 1987, and played in the Second XI for the last time in 1989, making a respectable final Second XI Championship appearance. Generally speaking, Beardshall was a tailend batsman, though his appearances at the bottom of the Derbyshire order were saved for those times when

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and

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were both in relatively good batting form.

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