Michael Richard Cronin (born 21 October 1941) is a retired 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. He was a left-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler who played for

Shropshire Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to th ...

. He was born in

Bromyard Bromyard is a town in Herefordshire, England, in the valley of the River Frome. It lies near the county border with Worcestershire on the A44 between Leominster and Worcester. Bromyard has a number of traditional half-timbered buildings, inclu ...

Herefordshire Herefordshire () is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council. It is bordered by Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Monmouthshire ...

and educated at the Lady Hawkins Grammar School in Kington.Published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Cronin, who represented Shropshire in the Minor Counties Championship in 1988 and 1989, made a single List A appearance for the team, in the 1992 NatWest Trophy, while playing at club level for Newport in that county.''Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998'', pages 32,55. From the tailend, he scored a single run, and took one wicket. He was also a

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. He had played professionally for

Hereford United Hereford United Football Club was an association football club based in Hereford, England. They played at Edgar Street for their entire history. They were nicknamed 'The Whites' or 'The Lilywhites', after their predominantly white kit, or 'The ...

and in county matches for Herefordshire.

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Michael Cronin
at Cricket Archive {{DEFAULTSORT:Cronin, Michael 1961 births Living people English cricketers Shropshire cricketers People from Bromyard Cricketers from Herefordshire