Neil Geoffrey Folland (born 27 June 1960) is an English former
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 played as a right-handed batsman and was born in
Bristol
Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in ...
.
Folland made his List A debut for
Devon County Cricket Club
Devon County Cricket Club (Devon Cricket) is one of 20 minor county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Devon.
The team is currently a member of the National Counties Champion ...
in 1986, scoring 30 runs and represented the team in the Minor Counties Championship between 1985 and 1988. He joined
Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire (; abbreviated Beds) is a ceremonial county in the East of England. The county has been administered by three unitary authorities, Borough of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Borough of Luton, since Bedfordshire County Council wa ...
in 1990, for whom he played in the Minor Counties Championship until 1994. He made a single List A appearance for Bedfordshire, in the 1991 NatWest Trophy, against
Worcestershire
Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see His ...
, scoring 10 runs.
Neil Folland
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His brother, Nick Folland, played first-class cricket for Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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as well as List A and Minor Counties cricket for Devon.
References
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1960 births
Living people
English cricketers
Bedfordshire cricketers
Devon cricketers
Cricketers from Bristol