Josh Mierkalns
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Josh Mierkalns is an English
England
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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. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who currently plays for Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club
Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire, and the current county champions. Its limited overs team is called the Nottinghamshire Outlaws...

. Mierkalns' second XI career began in 2003, when he made his debut against Yorkshire
Yorkshire County Cricket Club
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's Second XI.

Mierkalns represented the Nottinghamshire first-team in August 2006 when he played in a match against the touring West Indians
West Indian cricket team
The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as the West Indies or the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of 15 mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries, British dependencies and non-British dependencies.From the mid 1970s to the early 1990s,...

. The following month he played in a Pro40 match against Durham, though he was soon dropped from the team.

Mierkalns remains an occasional member of the Nottinghamshire Second XI. He was a member of the Nottinghamshire Second team which reached the final of the 2005 Second XI trophy.

He has scored 26 runs in his first class career.

In local domestic cricket, he currently plays for Caythorpe Cricket Club
Caythorpe Cricket Club
Caythorpe Cricket Club founded in 1880, is an amateur English Cricket Club based in the village of Caythorpe, Nottinghamshire. The club compete in the Nottinghamshire Cricket Board Premier League, which is an accredited ECB Premier League, winning the league title in 2006. The club has also reached...

 in the Nottinghamshire Cricket Board Premier League
Nottinghamshire Cricket Board Premier League
The Nottinghamshire Cricket Board Premier League is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in Nottinghamshire, England, and is a designated ECB Premier League.It has two feeder leagues serving the North and South of the county:...

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