Chris Lonsdale
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Christopher Hallett Lonsdale (born September 15, 1987) is a former Bermudian 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 and footballer. He made his One Day International debut for Bermuda against the Netherlands at Rotterdam in 2007. He was educated in England, at Loughborough Grammar School. He has two older brothers, Jack and Oliver.

Retirement

Chris has since dropped out of cricket and spent time working as a salesman for the deVere Group in Switzerland where he also spent some time playing football for local team FC Brugg
FC Brugg
FC Brugg is a Swiss football club from the town of Brugg in Canton Aargau. The team currently plays in Liga 1., the third highest tier in the Swiss football pyramid...

. He has been working as a used car salesman in Nottingham and in 2010 became a father to twins named Kurt and Courtney after Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana...

 and Courtney Love
Courtney Love
Courtney Michelle Love is an American rock musician. Love is the lead vocalist, lyricist, and rhythm guitarist for alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989, and is an actress who has moved from bit parts in Alex Cox films to significant and acclaimed roles in The People vs...

.

Now firmly retired from cricket he calls his cricket days "a shame on the nation" of Bemuda but is proud of his former nickname of "the white hope."

As of September 2011 Chris has returned to Switzerland to play for Grand-Lancy FC
Grand-Lancy FC
Grand-Lancy Football Club are a Swiss football team from Grand Lancy, they currently playing in Liga 1.,the 3rd tier in the Swiss football pyramid Group 1....

 and work as a salesman for the deVere Group, who have been featured on Panorama
Panorama (TV series)
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due to their frequent acts of financial mis-selling.
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