David Stiff is an English 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 is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler

Fast bowling

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. He went to school at Silcoates School

Silcoates School

Silcoates School is a public school in Wakefield, England. It was founded in 1820 as the Northern Congregational School at Silcoates House, for the board and education of the sons of non-conformist clergy; it was located close to Ossett and Horbury, which both had unusually large nonconformist...

, Wakefield but later moved to Batley Grammar School

Batley Grammar School

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The former-Yorkshire

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

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 fast bowler made headlines for a spell of bowling against Uganda

Ugandan cricket team

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 of 4 for 7, identical to fellow bowler Tim Bresnan

Tim Bresnan

Timothy 'Tim' Thomas Bresnan is an English cricketer. He is a fast-medium bowler, as well as being respected for his ability with the bat for Yorkshire. He normally fields in the deep. He won the NBC Denis Compton Award in 2002 and 2003. In June 2006 he was called up to the England One Day...

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In 2004 Stiff decided to leave Yorkshire amid a lot of interest from other counties. He apparently had interest from a dozen counties and took the opportunity to play for Kent

Kent County Cricket Club

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. He toured Australia

Australia

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 with the Under-17s in 2001, and with the Under-19s in 2003, also playing in the Under-19s World Cup in Bangladesh

Bangladesh

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In 2007, Stiff was released by Kent and went to Leicestershire. At the start of the 2009 season Stiff joined Somerset on a two month trial and on 14 May 2009 he accepted an extension to his contract which would last until the end of that season. In August 2010, Somerset's Director of Cricket, Brian Rose

Brian Rose (cricketer)

Brian Charles Rose is an English former cricketer, who played in nine Tests and two ODIs for England from 1977 to 1981.-Life and career:...

 announced that Stiff's contract would not be renewed for the 2011 season.

External links

• David Stiff at ECB