Stephen Colin Yates (born 30 August 1951) is a former 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. Yates was a right-handed batsman. He was born in Manchester, Lancashire. Yates made his debut for

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in the 1983

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against Shropshire. Yates played Minor counties cricket for Cheshire from 1983 to 1986, including 30 Minor Counties Championship matches and 10 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. In 1985, he made his

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debut against Yorkshire in the NatWest Trophy. He a further List A match for Cheshire, against

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. In his two List A matches, he scored 26 runs at a batting average of 13.00, with a high score of 20.

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