Mark Upton (born 30 June 1950) is a former English

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. Upton was a right-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born at

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, Dorset. Upton made a single first-class appearance for

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against Cambridge University in 1971. He scored two runs in this match, as well as taking the wicket of Michael Barford, though this came at an

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of 120 runs. Along with fellow debutant Steven Pheasant, this was his only major appearance for Sussex.

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