Paul Bird
Encyclopedia
Paul James Bird played first-class
and List A cricket
for Somerset
in 1994. He was born in Bristol
.
In senior cricket Bird was a tail-end right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. After playing in club cricket in Bristol and appearing in one second eleven match for Gloucestershire
, he joined Somerset's staff for the 1994 season, but played for the first team in only two first-class matches and five limited-overs games in the season. He did not make a lot of impact: he failed to take a wicket in his two first-class games, and there were only three wickets in his List A games, with best bowling figures of one wicket for 18 runs against Glamorgan
.
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
and List A 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...
for Somerset
Somerset County Cricket Club
Somerset 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 Somerset...
in 1994. He was born in Bristol
Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
.
In senior cricket Bird was a tail-end right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. After playing in club cricket in Bristol and appearing in one second eleven match 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 joined Somerset's staff for the 1994 season, but played for the first team in only two first-class matches and five limited-overs games in the season. He did not make a lot of impact: he failed to take a wicket in his two first-class games, and there were only three wickets in his List A games, with best bowling figures of one wicket for 18 runs against Glamorgan
Glamorgan County Cricket Club
Glamorgan 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 Glamorgan aka Glamorganshire . Glamorgan CCC is the only Welsh first-class cricket club. Glamorgan CCC have won the English County...
.