Bill Athey
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| Full name | Charles William Jeffrey Athey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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27 September 1957 Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom |
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| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed (RHB) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right arm medium (RM) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut | 28 August 1980 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 26 July 1988 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut | 20 August 1980 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 16 March 1988 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Charles William Jeffrey "Bill" Athey (born 27 September 1957, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England) is a retired English first-class cricketer, who played for England, and first class cricket for Gloucestershire, Yorkshire and Sussex; he also played a solitary one-day game for Worcestershire. His bulldog spirit was exemplified by the Union Jack tattooed on his arm. He played in 23 Test matches between 1980 and 1988, but scored more than 50 runs only five times in 41 innings. In 1990, Athey joined the rebel tour to South Africa.
He made his debut for his native Yorkshire in 1976, before moving to Gloucestershire in 1984. He captained the side in 1989, and scored four hundreds in successive innings while there. In 1993, he moved to Sussex, and passed the increasingly rare landmark of 25,000 first class runs when he made an unbeaten century against Somerset in 1997.
At the end of that season he joined Worcestershire as coach, having 'retired' from playing, though in spite of his status he did play several times for the Second XI and once (in 1999) in a National League game. He left New Road at the end of 2000. He played 467 first class matches and batted 784 times with 71 not outs. He scored 25,453 first-class runs, with a best of 184, at an average of 35.69, with 55 centuries and 126 fifties. He took 429 catches, and 2 stumpings on his rare ventures behind the stumps. In 459 List A one-day matches, he scored 13,240 runs, with a top score of 142 not out at an average of 33.86, scoring 12 centuries, 89 fifties, and taking 171 catches and one stumping. He also played Minor Counties cricket for Suffolk.
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