Anthony John Borrington is a former English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 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 who played for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...

 from 1971 to 1981.

Borrington was born at Spondon

Spondon

Spondon is a ward within the city of Derby. Prior to this, Spondon was a separate village which dated from before the Domesday Book of 1086.-Description:The name Spondon is Anglo-Saxon and describes a gravelly hill....

, Derbyshire. He began his career for Derbyshire in 1965 in the Derbyshire Second XI. His first-class debut came in the 1971 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1971

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1971 was the centenary cricket season of the English club Derbyshire which had first played in 1871. In the County Championship, they won one match to finish seventeenth in their seventy-seventh season in the Championship. They won seven matches in the John...

. Borrington continued in the first team until 1974, but in 1975 played only one first-class game, having suffered in the middle-order. With a regular place in 1976, there was no upturn of fortunes, a trend which continued until Borrington's exit from the first team in 1980.

Borrington continued to represent the Derbyshire team in limited overs cricket well into the 1980 season. He played one match for the Derbyshire team which won the NatWest Trophy in the 1981 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1981

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1981 represents cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for one hundred and ten years. It was the season when they won National Westminster Bank Trophy. They won ten matches in the John Player League to finish fourth...

, although he failed to score.

He was an opening batsman for the Derbyshire first team. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm leg-break bowler, and occasionally a wicket-keeper.

Borrington now works at Grace Dieu Manor

Grace Dieu Manor School

Grace Dieu Manor School is a preparatory school for pupils aged 3 to 13 set among of countryside. Opened in May 1933 by the Rosminians, it is a privately run Catholic school which welcomes children from all denominations and faiths. It acts as a prep school for Ratcliffe College...

 preparatory school in Leicestershire

Leicestershire

Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...

 as a geography teacher and deputy headmaster.

Borrington's son, Paul

Paul Borrington

Paul Michael Borrington is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler who currently plays for Derbyshire....

, signed a professional contract with Derbyshire in 2006.

External links

• Anthony Borrington at Cricket Archive