Neil David Burns (born 19 September 1965) 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 who played as a wicketkeeper/batsman at
First-class and
List A
List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...
level for various clubs but spent the majority of his career at
Leicestershire
Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...
and
Somerset.
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Burns was born in
Chelmsford, Essex in 1965.
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In 2004, following the end of his playing career, Burns re-formed the London County Cricket Club which had been founded by W.G. Grace - which he continues to manage.]
References
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1965 births
Living people
English cricketers
Leicestershire cricketers
Essex cricketers
Somerset cricketers
Buckinghamshire cricketers
Cricketers from Chelmsford
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Wicket-keepers