Simon Lacey
Encyclopedia
Simon James Lacey is a former English
cricket
er who played first class cricket for Derbyshire
between 1997 and 2000.
Lacey debuted in the Second XI Championship in 1992 and made his first appearance for the first-class team five years later in the 1997 season
. When he played against Hampshire
in August 2000 he achieved his best batting figures, one of only two half-century innings of his career, and his best bowling figures. Lacey was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler and his off-spin bowling, though unspectacular, was certainly functional.
Most recently Lacey has starred in the Derbyshire Premier League for Chesterfield.
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 first class cricket 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 1997 and 2000.
Lacey debuted in the Second XI Championship in 1992 and made his first appearance for the first-class team five years later in the 1997 season
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1997
Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1997 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for one hundred and twenty-six years. In the County Championship, they won two matches to finish sixteenth in their ninety fourth season in the Championship...
. When he played against Hampshire
Hampshire County Cricket Club
Hampshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Hampshire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1863 as a successor to the Hampshire county cricket teams and has played at the Antelope Ground from then until 1885, before moving to the County Ground where it...
in August 2000 he achieved his best batting figures, one of only two half-century innings of his career, and his best bowling figures. Lacey was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler and his off-spin bowling, though unspectacular, was certainly functional.
Most recently Lacey has starred in the Derbyshire Premier League for Chesterfield.
External links
- Simon Lacey at Cricket Archive