Gary Keedy
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| Full name | Gary Keedy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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27 November 1974 Sandal, West Yorkshire, England |
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| Nickname | Keeds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Left-hand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Slow left arm orthodox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1994 | Yorkshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1995–2012 | Lancashire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Surrey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014–present | Nottinghamshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricinfo, 12 September 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gary Keedy (born 27 November 1974 in Sandal, West Yorkshire) is a slow-left arm spin bowler for Nottinghamshire. He played one match for Yorkshire in 1994, having graduated from their cricket academy, before moving to Lancashire. He played for the club from 1995 to 2012 taking over 500 first-class wickets. Although he had played youth internationals, he has never represented the senior England team despite having been in the squad a few times. In 2011 he was part of the Lancashire squad that won the County Championship for the first time since 1950. He subsequently played one season for Surrey and two for Nottinghamshire, before retiring as a professional cricketer in 2015. After studying physiotherapy at the University of Salford, Keedy is currently Nottinghamshire's spin bowling coach and assistant physiotherapist.
Although Keedy has never played for the England test or one day senior team, between 1993 and 1994 he played 8 youth test matches taking 16 wickets at an average of 38.87 including the scalps of Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Thilan Samaraweera. In the same period, he also played 6 youth ODIs, claiming 8 wickets at 16.37.
Keedy graduated from the Yorkshire Cricket Academy and played only one match for Yorkshire before moving to rivals Lancashire in the winter of 1994/5.
Keedy was signed by then Lancashire coach David Lloyd in a motorway service station. Although it took time for him to become a leading light of the Lancashire attack, he was awarded his county cap in 2000. It was in 2003 that Keedy first started to impress observers, taking sixty wickets in the County Championship as Lancashire narrowly missed out on their first Championship title since 1934 to Sussex. Since then he has remained on the periphery of England selection. He was considered unlucky not to win a place to tour Sri Lanka in 2003-4. The selectors chose Glamorgan's Robert Croft instead.
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