Ryan Anthony Stevenson (born 2 April 1992) 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 str ...

er who played as a right-handed

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bowler and right handed

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. Stevenson spent some of his early career playing

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cricket for

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. In the summer of 2015 Stevenson was working on his father's farm setting up his own campsite business while playing for Devon and Torquay Cricket Club when he was spotted by

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director of cricket

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who offered him a trial at Hampshire to play 2nd XI cricket. He made his Hampshire debut in an

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match against

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at the

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on 1 September 2015. Stevenson announced his retirement from professional cricket on 8 October 2021.

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* 1992 births Living people Sportspeople from Torquay English cricketers Devon cricketers Hampshire cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1990s-stub