Edward Abel (born 30 January 1988) is an English first-class cricketer. Abel is a left-handed batsman who bowls slow left-arm orthodox. He was born at Salisbury, Wiltshire.
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| Born | 30 January 1988 Salisbury, Wiltshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Dis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Slow left-arm Orthodox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2010 | Oxford UCCE/MCCU | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2010 | Wiltshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 26 December 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abel made his debut for Wiltshire in the 2005 Minor Counties Championship against Oxfordshire[1] and in that same season he made his MCCA Knockout Trophy debut against Buckinghamshire.[2] He later attended Oxford Brookes University, while studying there he made his first-class debut for Oxford UCCE against Middlesex. He made two further appearances for Oxford UCCE in 2008 and another in 2009, before making a final first-class appearance for the team, which was now called Oxford MCCU following a change in name for the 2010 season. His final appearance came against Northamptonshire,[3] in which he made his only first-class fifty with a score of 60.[4] In his previous four first-class matches, Abel scored 94 runs at an average of 23.50, with a high score of 27 not out.[5]
Abel continued to play for Wiltshire during this period, making a total of twenty Minor Counties Championship appearances from 2005 to 2010,[1] and from 2005 to 2008 he made eight MCCA Knockout Trophy appearances.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Edward Abel". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
- ^ a b "Minor Counties Trophy Matches played by Edward Abel". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Edward Abel". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
- ^ "Oxford MCCU v Northamptonshire, 2010". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
- ^ "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Edward Abel". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
External links
edit- Edward Abel at ESPNcricinfo
- Edward Abel at CricketArchive