Simon James Marshall (born 20 September 1982) is an English

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 striki ...

er who was released by

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in 2008. Retrieved 12 August 2008. He bats right-handed and bowls right arm leg breaks. He was educated at

Birkenhead School Birkenhead School is an independent, academically-selective, co-educational day school located in Oxton, Wirral, in North West England. The school offers educational opportunities for girls and boys from three months to eighteen years of age. ...

and

Pembroke College, Cambridge Pembroke College (officially "The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College or Hall of Valence-Mary") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 ...

, where he read Land Economy from 2001 to 2004. Marshall has also represented

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and made his Lancashire debut in 2005, but he made his big breakthrough in 2006. Marshall attended

. After four seasons with Lancashire, Marshall left at the end of the 2008 season when the club decided not to renew his contract. During his time at Lancashire, Marshall appeared in 9 first-class matches taking 15 wickets at 45.60. In 2008, Marshall played in only two first-class and four list A matches, but in his nine Twenty20 appearances for Lancashire he took 14 wickets at an average of 13.57. Retrieved 12 August 2008.

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