Ryan Duffield
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Ryan Duffield is an Australia
Australia
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n cricket
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er, currently playing for the Western Warriors
Western Warriors
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Early career

Duffield was born in Darkan
Darkan, Western Australia
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, Western Australia
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. He played for Gosnells and Melville in the Western Australian Grade Cricket
Western Australian Grade Cricket
Grade Cricket in Western Australia refers to the semi-professional cricket league played at a level below the first-class Western Warriors and colts teams. The competition is administered by the Western Australian Cricket Association...

 competition, and also played for Western Australia Under-23s in the 2009-10 Futures League. He took nine wickets in three Futures League matches, with a best of 4/50 against South Australia U23s, and a best of 28*, also against South Australia. In Futures League Twenty20s he took seven wickets in three games at an average of 9.29, a competition record, with a best of 3/22 against Australian Centre of Excellence
Australian Cricket Academy
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. He did not bat.

Warriors career

He made his debut for the Warriors in the Sheffield Shield against Victoria in October 2010, taking 3/92 and 0/15 on debut, and making 31 runs in the second innings of the match. He made his debut in the Ryobi One-Day Cup a week later against New South Wales, taking 1/57. Against New South Wales in the Shield game from 28 November to 1 December, Duffield took 3/64 in the first innings and 6/77 in the second innings to record his best innings and match figures. So far in the 2010-11 season he has taken 33 wickets, the second-highest number from any Western Australian bowler in their debut Shield season, after Charlie Puckett's 35 wickets in 1947-48.

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