William Douglas Rudge (born 15 July 1983 in

Bristol Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in ...

) 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. He was educated at

Clifton College ''The spirit nourishes within'' , established = 160 years ago , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent boarding and day school , religion = Christian , president = , head_label = Head of College , head ...

. He is a right-handed

batsman In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the ball with a bat to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since September 2021, officially referred to as a batter (historically, the ...

and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who has played List A and

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

for

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is the city of Gl ...

. He had previously played for the

Gloucestershire Cricket Board The Gloucestershire Cricket Board (GCB) is the governing body for all recreational cricket in the historic county of Gloucestershire. From 1999 to 2003 the Board fielded a team in the early rounds of English domestic one-day tournament matches, ...

during 2002/03. He is now playing Minor Counties cricket for Herefordshire, and made an impressive debut against Shropshire at Eastnor.

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Will Rudge
at ECB 1983 births English cricketers Gloucestershire cricketers Living people Cricketers from Bristol People educated at Clifton College Gloucestershire Cricket Board cricketers Herefordshire cricketers Hertfordshire cricketers {{england-cricket-bio-1980s-stub