Michael O'Sullivan (cricketer)
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Michael O'Sullivan (born 16 November 1973) is a former English
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er. He was a left-handed batsman, left-arm fast medium and slow left-arm orthodox bowler who played for
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. He was born in
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Career

O'Sullivan, made his Second XI Championship debut for
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in 1994, and his Berkshire debut in the 1990 Minor Counties Championship. He has also played Second XI representative cricket for
Sussex Sussex (Help:IPA/English, /ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English ''Sūþseaxe''; lit. 'South Saxons'; 'Sussex') is an area within South East England that was historically a kingdom of Sussex, kingdom and, later, a Historic counties of England, ...
and
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. O'Sullivan did not bat in his debut, but took figures of 1-12 with the ball. In his second appearance, two years later, he scored 20 runs from the lower order, though it was not enough to save Berkshire from defeat. He was second in the
Berkshire Berkshire ( ; abbreviated ), officially the Royal County of Berkshire, is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Oxfordshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the north-east, Greater London ...
bowling averages for the 1998 season with figures of 15 wickets for 319 runs, with an average of 21.27 (bb 3-24). His best bowling figures of 5/59 off 20 overs for
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against
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in July 2004 at Camborne saw Berkshire to a 96 run victory.


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Michael O'Sullivan
at CricketArchive {{DEFAULTSORT:Osullivan, Michael 1973 births Living people English cricketers Berkshire cricketers Cricketers from Reading, Berkshire