Darren John Bicknell is an English

England

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 former 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 left-handed batsman and a slow left-arm bowler.

Born in Guildford

Guildford

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, Darren is the brother of former England

English cricket team

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 seam bowler Martin Bicknell

Martin Bicknell

Martin Paul Bicknell is a former English cricketer. He played only four Test matches, but the last two, against South Africa in 2003, came ten years after the first two in the 1993 Ashes series. England had played 114 matches between his appearances, a record...

. However, he struggled to have similar international impact in the 1990s, the selectors instead preferring players such as Jason Gallian

Jason Gallian

Jason Edward Riche Gallian is a former English Test cricketer. A right-handed opening batsman, he originally hails from Australia and captained their Under-19 side for two Under-19 Tests in 1989 and 1990. He played three Test matches for England, but disappointed, with a highest score of 28 in six...

 and Mark Lathwell

Mark Lathwell

Mark Nicholas Lathwell is a former English cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1993. Lathwell played the entirety of his First-class cricket career for Somerset County Cricket Club and is regarded as one of the best young batsmen England has ever produced...

. Most of Bicknell's career was spent at Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

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, but recently he has enjoyed some time at Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

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.

Bicknell has made more than 80 half-centuries in his career, but in 2005, he often struggled in converting half-century innings to century innings, with a ratio of ten 50s to two hundreds.

Bicknell announced his intention to retire from cricket at the end of the 2006 season.

In 2010, Bicknell returned to the world of cricket despite an inflamed neck.

External links

• Darren Bicknell at ECB