Simon Robert Porter (9 August 1950 – 9 February 2017) was 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. Porter was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born in Cowley, Oxfordshire.

Oxford University

Simon Porter attended Peers School, Littlemore, before going up to St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He made his first-class debut for Oxford University against Worcestershire in 1973. He played 6 further first-class matches for the university, the last coming against Cambridge University in the same year. In his 7 first-class matches, he scored 76 runs at a batting average of 7.60, with a high score of 20. With the ball, he took 18 wickets at a

bowling average In cricket, a player's bowling average is the number of runs they have conceded per wicket taken. The lower the bowling average is, the better the bowler is performing. It is one of a number of statistics used to compare bowlers, commonly use ...

of 33.33, with best figures of 4/26. It was Oxford University that he made his debut in List A cricket for, against Warwickshire in the

1973 Benson & Hedges Cup The 1973 Benson & Hedges Cup was the second edition of cricket's Benson & Hedges Cup. The competition was won by Kent County Cricket Club. Fixtures and results Group stage Midlands Group Northern Group Southern Group Western G ...

. He made 2 further appearances for the university in that season's competition, against Northamptonshire and Worcestershire.

Oxfordshire

Porter made his debut for

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before playing for Oxford University, first appearing in the 1971

Minor Counties Championship The NCCA 3 Day Championship (previously the Minor Counties Cricket Championship) is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national cou ...

against Wiltshire. Porter played Minor counties cricket for Oxfordshire from 1971 to 1988 which included 118 Minor Counties Championship matches and 9 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. He played his first List A match for Oxfordshire against Cornwall in the

1975 Gillette Cup The 1975 Gillette Cup was the thirteenth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 25 June and 6 September 1975. The tournament was won by Lancashire County Cricket Club who defeated Middlesex County C ...

. He played 7 further List A matches for Oxfordshire, the last of which came against

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in the

1987 NatWest Trophy The 1987 NatWest Trophy was the 7th NatWest Trophy. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 24 June and 5 September 1987. The tournament was won by Nottinghamshire who defeated Northamptonshire by 3 wicke ...

. In his 8 List A matches for the county, he scored 55 runs at an average of 9.16, with a high score of 44. He took 9 wickets at a

of 45.33, with best figures of 3/58.

References

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