Richard Michael Pyrah (born 1 November 1982) is an English

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

er, who played all his career for

Yorkshire County Cricket Club Yorkshire County Cricket Club is one of 18 first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Yorkshire. Yorkshire are the most successful team in English cricketing hi ...

. Educated at Ossett School, the right-hand batsman and right-arm medium pacer was used mainly in one day and

Twenty20 Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have a single innin ...

cricket. He made his one-day debut in 2001, but had to wait until 2004 for his first-class bow. Pyrah made his 100th appearance for Yorkshire in one day cricket in June 2013, against

Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, historic county in South East England, southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the Ceremonial counties of ...

at Headingley. Rich has twin daughters, Mollie and Tilly. He also has a partner called Alexandra Jane Ahern which has a daughter called Lilly Ahern lee In September 2015, at the end of his benefit season, Pyrah retired from professional cricket in order to take up a full-time post on the club's coaching staff.

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* 1982 births Living people Yorkshire cricketers Cricketers from Dewsbury English cricketers of the 21st century English cricketers Yorkshire Cricket Board cricketers English cricket coaches {{england-cricket-bio-1980s-stub