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Full name Ashley Anthony Metcalfe
Born December 25, 1963, Horsforth, Yorkshire
Current age 44 years 240 days
Major teams Cumberland,Nottinghamshire,Orange Free State,Yorkshire
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Height
5 ft 9 in
Education Bradford Grammar School, University College, London
Relations Father-in-law - R Illingworth
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
100
50
Ct
St
First-class
216
369
21
11938
216*
34.30
26
57
82
0
List A
239
230
21
7030
138
33.63
5
46
60
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
216
428
362
4
2/18
90.50
5.07
107.0
0
0
List A
239
48
47
3
2/44
2/44
15.66
5.87
16.0
0
0
0
Career statistics
First-class span
1983 - 1997
List A span
1982 - 2004
Profile
Ashley Metcalfe was an attacking opening batsman who never quite fulfilled his early potential. He scored a hundred on his debut for Yorkshire in 1983, putting on 248 for the first wicket with Geoff Boycott, and he underlined his one-day credentials with a Sunday League century the following summer. In 1986 he scored 1803 runs, including six hundreds, being named the Young Player of the Year and coming close to being selected for that winter's Ashes tour. He continued to score well, forming a solid opening partnership with Martyn Moxon, his best year coming in the batsman-friendly summer of 1990 when he made 2047 and 51.17, including another six hundreds. In between, he was a key part of Yorkshire's 1987 B&H success, winning four Gold Awards as well as scoring more one-day runs in the summer than anyone else. But his form fell away steadily after 1990, and by 1992 he had lost his place in the side. He left Yorkshire for Nottinghamshire in 1995 after a benefit year which yielded £110,000, but fared little better at Trent Bridge and he retired at the end of 1997. He continued to play Minor County cricket for Cumberland.
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