Thomas Oscar Bruce (born 10 February 1983) is an English
cricket
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er. Bruce is a left-handed
batsman who bowls
slow left-arm orthodox
Left-arm orthodox spin, Left-arm off spin also known as slow left-arm orthodox spin bowling, is a type of Finger spin, left-arm finger spin bowling (cricket), bowling in the sport of cricket.
Left-arm orthodox spin is bowled by a left-arm bow ...
. He was born in
Bampton,
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest settlement being the city of Oxford. The county is a centre of research and development, primarily ...
.
Bruce studied at
Durham University
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, where he captained the cricket team. While studying for his degree, Bruce made his
first-class debut for
Durham UCCE
Durham MCC University (previously known as Durham University Centre of Cricketing Excellence) is a cricket coaching centre based at Durham University in Durham, County Durham, England, and the name under which the university's cricket team plays ...
against
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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in 2005. He made two further first-class appearances in 2005, against
Leicestershire
Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...
and
Durham. In his three first-class matches, he scored 86 runs at an
average
In ordinary language, an average is a single number taken as representative of a list of numbers, usually the sum of the numbers divided by how many numbers are in the list (the arithmetic mean). For example, the average of the numbers 2, 3, 4, 7, ...
of 43.00, with a high score of 26.
References
External links
Thomas Bruceat
ESPNcricinfo
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Thomas Bruceat CricketArchive
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1983 births
Living people
People from Bampton, Oxfordshire
Alumni of Hatfield College, Durham
English cricketers
Durham MCCU cricketers