Stuart Ashley Shaw is an English

English people

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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. Shaw is a right-handed batsman who bowls left-arm fast-medium

Fast bowling

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. He was born in Crewe

Crewe

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, Cheshire

Cheshire

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 and educated there at Shavington High School

Shavington High School

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.

Shaw made his debut for Kent

Kent County Cricket Club

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 in a Twenty20

Twenty20

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 match against Middlesex

Middlesex County Cricket Club

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 in the 2010 Friends Provident t20

2010 Friends Provident t20

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, with him making three further appearances in that seasons competition. During the 2011 season

2011 English cricket season

The 2011 English cricket season began on 2 April with a round of university matches, and will continue until the final of the Clydesdale Bank 40 on 17 September. Three major domestic competitions are contested: the 2011 County Championship, the 2011 Clydesdale Bank 40 and the 2011 Friends Life t20...

, he made his first-class

First-class cricket

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 debut against Loughborough MCC University, with him going on to make three further first-class appearances that season. He has taken 11 first-class wickets to date, which have come at an average

Bowling average

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 of 36.36, with best figures of 5/118. His maiden five wicket haul came against Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 in the County Championship

2011 County Championship

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. In that same season, Shaw also made his List A debut against Worcestershire

Worcestershire County Cricket Club

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 in the Clydesdale Bank 40

2011 Clydesdale Bank 40

The 2011 Clydesdale Bank 40 tournament is the second season of the Clydesdale Bank 40 limited overs cricket competition for the England and Wales first-class counties...

. He made five further appearances in that format during 2011, the last of which came against the Netherlands. He took 5 wickets in these six appearances, which came at an average of 36.80, with best figures of 3/26. Shaw made no Twenty20 appearances during the 2011 season.

External links

• Ashley Shaw at ESPNcricinfo
• Ashley Shaw at CricketArchive
  CricketArchive
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