Nicholas Edward Julian Pocock (born 15 December 1951 in Maracaibo

Maracaibo

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, Venezuela

Venezuela

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) was 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 who played for Hampshire

Hampshire County Cricket Club

Hampshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Hampshire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1863 as a successor to the Hampshire county cricket teams and has played at the Antelope Ground from then until 1885, before moving to the County Ground where it...

. Pocock was a right-handed batsman who bowled left-arm medium

Seam bowling

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 pace.

Pocock made his Hampshire debut during the 1976 County Championship season. From 1980 to 1984 Pocock captained

Captain (cricket)

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 Hampshire. Pocock retired from first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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 at the end of the 1984 County Championship season, after eight years with the club, four of which were as captain.

External links

• Nick Pocock on Cricinfo
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