Roger John Finney (born 2 August 1960) is a former English

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er. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-pace swing bowler. Finney first played for the

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Second XI in 1978, when he represented them for the first time in the Second XI Championship. He played Second XI and Under-25 cricket for the next four years before breaking into Derbyshire's senior team. He made his first appearance as a lower-middle-order batsman in 1982, and played in the

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consistently until 1988, when through injury he suffered a decline in his bowling form and found himself out of the first XI. He continued for a season in the second team, until in 1989 the injury forced his retirement from the first-class game. In 1989 he started playing for

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, in the Minor Counties Championship and, in the final game of his career, as an opening batsman in the NatWest Trophy. Throughout his career with Derbyshire, he played as a middle-order batsman, and a consistent bowler, with a first-class average with the ball peaking at 27 in 1985. In all he played 212 matches for Derbyshire scoring over 3700 runs and taking over 270 wickets.

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