Alessandro Bonora is an Italian

Italy

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 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He has played for Italy

Italian cricket team

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 since 2000. Born in Bordighera

Bordighera

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, Bonora first represented the Italian team at the 2000 European Championship, in a loss against Scotland

Scottish cricket team

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, a season which saw the Italians finish tenth from twelve teams in the Division One table.

Two years later, Italy were relegated from Division One, despite Bonora making his way up to opening batsman at the expense of teammate and Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

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's Australian-born Italian representative Joe Scuderi

Joe Scuderi

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Italy made their way back up to the first division come 2006, but Bonora's previous surge in form let him down with frequent single-figure scores as Italy finished fifth from five teams in the points table.

External links

• Alessandro Bonora at Cricket Archive