William Andrew Thomas Beer (born 8 October 1988) 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. Primarily a
leg break
Leg spin is a type of spin bowling in cricket. A leg spinner bowls right-arm with a wrist spin action. The leg spinner's normal delivery causes the ball to spin from right to left (from the bowler's perspective) when the ball bounces on the ...
bowler, he currently plays for
Sussex County Cricket Club
Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Sussex. Its limited overs team is called the Sussex Sharks. The c ...
and
Horsham
Horsham is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Nearby to ...
. He mainly plays one day cricket.
Promoted from Sussex's youth academy at the end of 2007, Beer made his
first-class debut in the season's opening game against
Marylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's Cricket Ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London. The club was formerly the governing body of cricket retaining considerable global influence ...
.
Bowling five overs, Beer took one wicket in the MCC's only innings of the match, that of
Surrey
Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. ...
's
Arun Harinath
Arun Harinath (born 26 March 1987) is a former English cricketer, a top-order batsman who played at first-class level for Surrey, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), Leicestershire and Loughborough UCCE between 2007 and 2018. He was educated at ...
. He also made four appearances in the
2008 Twenty20 Cup
The 2008 Twenty20 Cup was the sixth running of the tournament, and saw Middlesex Crusaders winning the tournament after a thrilling climax to the final against the reigning champions, the Kent Spitfires. The tournament began on 11 June 2008 bef ...
, where he took three wickets.
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1988 births
Living people
English cricketers
Sussex cricketers
Sportspeople from Crawley
Oxfordshire cricketers
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