Ian Saxelby is an 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. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who currently plays for Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Gloucestershire. Its limited overs team is called the Gloucestershire Gladiators....

. He was born in Nottingham

Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...

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Saxelby made his Second XI debut for the Nottinghamshire team in the 2006 Second XI trophy in a game in which Francois du Plessis

Francois du Plessis

Francois "Faf" du Plessis is a right-handed batsman who plays One Day International cricket for South Africa and is a former under 19 representative....

 and Josh Mierkalns

Josh Mierkalns

Josh Mierkalns is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who currently plays for Nottinghamshire...

 made a double-century and a century respectively. In July 2008 Saxelby apepared for England Under-19s in a game against a Bangladesh A team.

Saxelby made his first-class debut later in the same month for Gloucestershire against Middlesex

Middlesex County Cricket Club

Middlesex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Middlesex. It was announced in February 2009 that Middlesex changed their limited overs name from the Middlesex Crusaders, to the...

. Saxelby's uncle, Kevin, played for Nottinghamshire between 1978 and 1990, while another uncle, Mark

Mark Saxelby

Mark Saxelby was an English cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler....

, died in 2000 of disputed causes, posited either as weedkiller poisoning or suicide due to clinical depression.

External links

• Ian Saxelby at Cricket Archive