Duncan Phillip Bradshaw is a Zimbabwean born English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 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. Bradshaw is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm fast-medium

Fast bowling

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. He was born in the Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

an captial Harare

Harare

Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...

 and was educated at Hilton College in South Africa

South Africa

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, before moving to England

England

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While studying for his degree at Oxford Brookes University Business School

Oxford Brookes University

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, Bradshaw made his debut in first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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 for Oxford UCCE against Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 in 2006. He played for Oxford UCCE in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Following the teams renaming to Oxford MCCU, he continued to play for team in 2009 and 2010, making a total of twelve first-class appearances. In his twelve first-class appearances, he scored 529 runs at an average

Batting average

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 of 37.78, with a high score of 127 not out

Not out

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. This score, which was his only first-class century

Century (cricket)

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, came against Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

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 in 2008. In addition to his lone century, he also made two half centuries.

In the 2008 season

2008 English cricket season

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, he was part of the first internship programme run by the MCC, which placed promising university players with first-class counties, with Bradshaw undertaking his internship with Essex

Essex County Cricket Club

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, though was unable to force his way into the Essex first XI. In that same season he played a single List A match for the Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club

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 against Bangladesh A

Bangladesh A cricket team

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 at the The Racecourse, Durham. He scored 12 runs in the Marylebone Cricket Club's innings, before being dismissed by Rubel Hossain

Rubel Hossain

Mohammad Rubel Hossain is a Bangladeshi cricketer. He made his ODI debut on 14 January 2009 in Bangladesh's victory over Sri Lanka, where he took 4/33 in 5.3 overs in a shortened ODI game. He made his Test debut on 9 July 2009 against the West Indies, and took 3 wickets...

. Bangladesh A won the match by 80 runs. He has also played Second XI cricket for a number of first-class counties besides Essex, though has been unable to secure a contract with any.

External links

• Duncan Bradshaw at ESPNcricinfo
• Duncan Bradshaw at CricketArchive
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