Oliver James Hannon-Dalby (born 20 June 1989) is an English

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er, currently with

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Av ...

having previously played for

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. He is a left-handed

batsman In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball, ball with a cricket bat, bat to score runs (cricket), runs and prevent the dismissal (cricket), loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since Septembe ...

and a right arm

medium-fast Fast bowling (also referred to as pace bowling) is one of two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket, the other being spin bowling. Practitioners of pace bowling are usually known as ''fast'' bowlers, ''quicks'', or ''pacemen''. T ...

bowler. Hannon-Dalby was a graduate of the Yorkshire Cricket Academy. He made his first-class debut against Surrey on 21 May 2008, where his first wicket was that of prolific runscorer

Mark Ramprakash Mark Ravin Ramprakash (born 5 September 1969) is an English former cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he initially made his name playing for Middlesex, and was selected for England aged 21. A gifted, and one of the heaviest-scoring, English b ...

. He gained his first five-wicket haul of 5 for 68 against

in the first match of the 2010

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season. He followed this up in the second match with another haul, coincidentally also 5 for 68, against

Somerset ( en, All The People of Somerset) , locator_map = , coordinates = , region = South West England , established_date = Ancient , established_by = , preceded_by = , origin = , lord_lieutenant_office =Lord Lieutenant of Somerset , lord_ ...

Headingley Headingley is a suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, approximately two miles out of the city centre, to the north west along the A660 road. Headingley is the location of the Beckett Park campus of Leeds Beckett University and Headingley ...

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Oliver Hannon-Dalby
at Warwickshire County Cricket Club 1989 births Living people Yorkshire cricketers Cricketers from Halifax, West Yorkshire English cricketers Warwickshire cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers {{england-cricket-bio-1980s-stub