John Spencer was 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...

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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 was a left-handed batsman and left-arm medium-fast bowler who played for Wiltshire

Wiltshire County Cricket Club

Wiltshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Wiltshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy....

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Spencer made a single List A appearance for the team, during the 1984 season, having made a single Second XI appearance for Gloucestershire ten seasons previously. Spencer did not bat in the match, and bowled 12 overs, taking figures of 4-82 - including David Gower.

Spencer has two sons, Daniel and Matthew.

External links

• John Spencer at Cricket Archive