Lian Wharton
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Lian James Wharton is a former English
cricket
er who played for Derbyshire
between 2000 and 2003.
Wharton was born in Holbrook, Derbyshire
. He appeared for three years as the leading spinner within the Derbyshire line-up, and has since taken his cricketing career into the realms of indoor cricket. He was a left-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler.Wharton holds match-best figures of 6-62.
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 who played for Derbyshire
Derbyshire County Cricket Club
Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...
between 2000 and 2003.
Wharton was born in Holbrook, Derbyshire
Holbrook, Derbyshire
Holbrook is a village in Derbyshire at the southern end of the Pennines around five miles north of Derby, England.-History:Holbrook lies about two miles to the north-east of Duffield, the parish of which it was a part, being within Duffield Frith. When the latter was seized by King Henry III...
. He appeared for three years as the leading spinner within the Derbyshire line-up, and has since taken his cricketing career into the realms of indoor cricket. He was a left-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler.Wharton holds match-best figures of 6-62.