Samuel Ward Shippey (born 13 June 1937) is a former English

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er. Shippey was a right-handed batsman who bowled

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. He was born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Shippey made his debut for Cambridgeshire in the 1958

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against Bedfordshire. From 1958 to 1963, he represented the county in 13 Minor Counties matches. Fifteen years after last representing Cambridgeshire in the championship, he played his fifteenth and final Minor Counties Championship match against Lincolnshire in 1978. Shippey also represented Cambridgeshire in 2 List-A matches against Essex in the

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and against Yorkshire in the

1967 Gillette Cup The 1967 Gillette Cup was the fifth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 23 April and 2 September 1967. The tournament was won by Kent County Cricket Club who defeated Somerset County Cricket Club ...

. In his 2 List-A matches, he scored just 2 runs.List-A Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Samuel Shippey
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Family

His brother Tony represented the Marylebone Cricket Club, a combined Minor Counties cricket team in first-class cricket and

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and Cambridgeshire in List-A cricket.

References

External links

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