Robert Cunliffe (born 8 November 1973) is an English
cricket
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er. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. During his nine years in first-class cricket he played for
Gloucestershire
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The county town is the city of Gl ...
and
Leicestershire
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.
Cunliffe played in six Youth Test matches for
England
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in the calendar year of 1993. Thanks to two not out innings and a high score of 98, he finished with a Youth Test average of 58. A generally consistent mid-order batsman, he made his first cricketing appearances in the Minor Counties Championship for
Oxfordshire
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in 1991, and moved to Gloucestershire in the same year.
With the promise of First Division cricket, he decided to make the move to Leicestershire in 2002, before retiring from first-class cricket a year later.
External links
Robert Cunliffeat CricketArchive
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1973 births
English cricketers
Gloucestershire cricketers
Leicestershire cricketers
Living people
NBC Denis Compton Award recipients
Oxfordshire cricketers
Wiltshire cricketers
First-Class Counties Select XI cricketers
Place of birth missing (living people)