Steven Monkhouse (born 24 November 1962) is a former English

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er. Monkhouse was a right-handed batsman who bowled left-arm fast-medium. He was born in

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. Monkhouse made his debut in

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for Warwickshire in a first-class match against

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in the County Championship. He made a further first-class appearance the following season against Lancashire in the

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. He took 2 wickets in his 2 matches, at 47.50 a piece. He joined Glamorgan in 1987, making his first-class debut for the county against Oxford University. He made 7 further first-class appearances for Glamorgan, the last of which came against Yorkshire in the

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. In his 8 first-class matches, he took 16 wickets at a respectable average of 30.06, with best figures of 3/37. It was for Glamorgan that he made his

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debut in the

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against Northamptonshire. He made 3 further List A appearances for Glamorgan, all coming in 1987, with his final appearance coming against Hampshire. In his 4 limited-overs appearances for the county, he took 8 wickets at an average of 11.62, with best figures of 5/32. His best bowling figures came against

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in the

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. Leaving Glamorgan at the end of the 1988 season, Monkhouse later made a single List A appearance for

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against Glamorgan in the

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. In this match, he was dismissed for 11 runs by Michael Cann, while with the ball he bowled 12 wicket-less overs for the cost of 66 runs. He never appeared in Minor counties cricket for Staffordshire.

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