David Short
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David Short was an English
cricket
er. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler who played for Derbyshire
.
Short's debut in first-class cricket came in 1957, the same time that he started representing Derbyshire in the Minor Counties Championship. Short's debut came thanks to an innings defeat in the 1957 County Championship, a season where, despite giving himself a decent shot at success in the middle order, he averaged below 10.
Short spent the whole of 1958 out of the game, before playing for the Second XI in 1959. He returned to the first team in time for the start of 1960, and, despite hitting a half-century against Warwickshire
- the only one of his first-class career - he found himself out of the team by the end of the season.
Short's brother, Bob
played cricket for the Derbyshire Second XI from 1967 to 1968 and for Cambridge University
from 1969 to 1970.
David's Grandson, Andrew Short(1995) has followed in David's footsteps by legspinning for Denstone College.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler who played for Derbyshire
Derbyshire County Cricket Club
Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...
.
Short's debut in first-class cricket came in 1957, the same time that he started representing Derbyshire in the Minor Counties Championship. Short's debut came thanks to an innings defeat in the 1957 County Championship, a season where, despite giving himself a decent shot at success in the middle order, he averaged below 10.
Short spent the whole of 1958 out of the game, before playing for the Second XI in 1959. He returned to the first team in time for the start of 1960, and, despite hitting a half-century against Warwickshire
Warwickshire County Cricket Club
Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Warwickshire. Its limited overs team is called the Warwickshire Bears. Their kit colours are black and gold and the shirt sponsor...
- the only one of his first-class career - he found himself out of the team by the end of the season.
Short's brother, Bob
Bob Short
Robert Earl Short was an American sport teams owner and politician.-Biography:A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Short bought the Minneapolis Lakers of the National Basketball Association in the late 1950s and moved the team to Los Angeles in 1960...
played cricket for the Derbyshire Second XI from 1967 to 1968 and for Cambridge University
Cambridge University Cricket Club
Cambridge University Cricket Club is a first-class cricket team. It now plays all but one of its first-class cricket matches as part of the Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence , which includes Anglia Ruskin University...
from 1969 to 1970.
David's Grandson, Andrew Short(1995) has followed in David's footsteps by legspinning for Denstone College.
External links
- David Short at Cricket Archive