Christopher Arthur Pickett (26 August 1926 – October 1995) was an English

English people

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 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. Pickett was a left-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox as well as left-arm fast

Fast bowling

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. He was born in Hedgerley

Hedgerley

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, Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

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.

Pickett made his debut for Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire County Cricket Club

Buckinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Buckinghamshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy. The Minor Counties play...

 in the 1949 Minor Counties Championship against Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire County Cricket Club

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. Pickett played Minor counties cricket for Buckinghamshire from 1949 to 1970, which included 69 Minor Counties Championship matches. In 1965, he made his List A debut against Middlesex

Middlesex County Cricket Club

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 in the Gillette Cup

1965 Gillette Cup

The 1965 Gillette Cup was the third Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 23 April and 4 September 1965. The tournament was won by Yorkshire, following Geoff Boycott's 146 runs in the final at Lord's...

. He made 3 further List A appearances for the county, the last coming against Hampshire

Hampshire County Cricket Club

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 in the 1970 Gillette Cup

1970 Gillette Cup

The 1970 Gillette Cup was the eighth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 25 April and 5 September 1970...

. In his 4 List A matches, he took 7 wickets at a bowling average

Bowling average

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 of 22.28, with best figures of 4/20.

In his career, Pickett also played a single first-class

First-class cricket

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 match for a combined Minor Counties cricket team against the touring Australians in 1953. In this match, he scored 7*

Not out

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 in the Minor Counties first-innings and in their second-innings he was dismissed for 3 by Richie Benaud

Richie Benaud

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. He also bowled 13 wicket-less overs

Over (cricket)

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 in the match.

He died sometime in October 1995.

External links

• Christopher Pickett at ESPNcricinfo
• Christopher Pickett at CricketArchive
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