Jonathan Nicholas Perry is a former English cricket

Cricket

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er who played 11 first-class

First-class cricket

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 matches in 1987 and 1988. Ten of these games were for Cambridge University

Cambridge University Cricket Club

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, with the other coming for the combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities

Oxford and Cambridge Universities cricket team

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 side.

Perry made his debut for Cambridge against Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

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 at Fenner's

Fenner's

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 in April 1987, taking four wickets in the match including 3/73 in the first innings.
He bettered this with 3/56 (his career best) against Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

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 in his next game.
His only other three-wicket haul was also against Surrey, 3/72 in June 1988,
although he did manage four wickets in a non-first-class game for Oxford and Cambridge Universities against the West Indians later that month.

Perry is the great-grandson of Warwickshire

Warwickshire County Cricket Club

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 captain and England and British Lions rugby union

Rugby union

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 international J. F. Byrne

J. F. Byrne

James Frederick Byrne was English sportsman who captained Warwickshire at first-class cricket and was capped in rugby for both England and the British and Irish Lions.-Cricket career:...

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