Jack Kenneth Manuel 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. Manuel is a left-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break

Off break

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. He was born in Sutton Coldfield

Sutton Coldfield

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, Warwickshire

Warwickshire

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 and educated at Wilnecote High School in Tamworth

Tamworth

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.

Manuel made his debut in county cricket

County cricket

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 for Staffordshire

Staffordshire County Cricket Club

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 in the 2009 MCCA Knockout Trophy

MCCA Knockout Trophy

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 against Suffolk

Suffolk County Cricket Club

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. He made six appearances in the competition in 2009, with three further appearances in 2010. He made his debut for England Under-19s in 2009, playing Youth Test

Test cricket

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, One Day International and Twenty20 International

Twenty20 International

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 matches in 2009 and 2010.

The 2010 season

2010 English cricket season

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 saw him make his debut for Worcestershire

Worcestershire County Cricket Club

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 in a Twenty20

Twenty20

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 match in the Friends Provident t20

2010 Friends Provident t20

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 against Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire County Cricket Club

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. That same season also saw him make his List A debut against Sussex

Sussex County Cricket Club

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 in the Clydesdale Bank 40

2010 Clydesdale Bank 40

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. The following season he made his first-class

First-class cricket

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 debut against Somerset

Somerset County Cricket Club

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 in the 2011 County Championship

2011 County Championship

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. In his only first-class appearance to date, he scored 5 runs in Worcestershire's first-innings of the match, before being dismissed by Alfonso Thomas

Alfonso Thomas

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, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for a duck

Duck (cricket)

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 by Murali Kartik

Murali Kartik

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. To date he has played seven List A matches and thirteen Twenty20 matches.

External links

• Jack Manuel at ESPNcricinfo
• Jack Manuel at CricketArchive
  CricketArchive
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