Stephen James Edwards is a former English

English people

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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. Edwards was a right-handed batsman who bowled both slow left-arm orthodox and left-arm medium pace

Seam bowling

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. He was born in Highgate

Highgate

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, Middlesex

Middlesex

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Edwards made his debut for Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire County Cricket Club

Buckinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Buckinghamshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy. The Minor Counties play...

 in the 1985 Minor Counties Championship against the Somerset Second XI

Somerset County Cricket Club

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. Edwards played Minor counties cricket for Buckinghamshire from 1985 to 1992, which included 33 Minor Counties Championship matches and 6 MCCA Knockout Trophy

MCCA Knockout Trophy

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 matches. In 1987, he made his List A debut against Somerset

Somerset County Cricket Club

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 in the NatWest Trophy

1987 NatWest Trophy

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. He played 2 further List A matches for Buckinghamshire, the last coming against Sussex

Sussex County Cricket Club

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 in the 1992 NatWest Trophy

1992 NatWest Trophy

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. He also played a single List A match for the combined Minor Counties cricket team in the 1988 Benson & Hedges Cup against Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

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. In total, Edwards played 4 List A matches, scoring 29 runs and taking 3 wickets at a bowling average

Bowling average

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 of 41.33, with best figures of 2/14.

He also played Second XI cricket for the Essex Second XI

Essex County Cricket Club

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 in 1976.

External links

• Stephen Edwards at ESPNcricinfo
• Stephen Edwards at CricketArchive
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