Stephen Colin Yates 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. Yates was a right-handed batsman. He was born in Manchester

Manchester

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, Lancashire

Lancashire

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Yates made his debut for Cheshire

Cheshire County Cricket Club

Cheshire 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 Cheshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...

 in the 1983 Minor Counties Championship against Shropshire

Shropshire County Cricket Club

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. Yates played Minor counties cricket for Cheshire from 1983 to 1986, including 30 Minor Counties Championship matches and 10 MCCA Knockout Trophy

MCCA Knockout Trophy

The Minor Counties Cricket Association Knockout Cup was started in 1983 as a knockout one-day competition for the Minor Counties in English cricket...

 matches. In 1985, he made his List A debut against Yorkshire

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

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 in the NatWest Trophy

1985 NatWest Trophy

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. He a further List A match for Cheshire, against Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

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 in 1986

1986 NatWest Trophy

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. In his two List A matches, he scored 26 runs at a batting average

Batting average

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 of 13.00, with a high score of 20.

External links

• Stephen Yates at ESPNcricinfo
• Stephen Yates at CricketArchive
  CricketArchive
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