Roger Finney
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Roger Finney was an English
cricket
er. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm slow-medium bowler. He first played for the Derbyshire
Second XI in 1978, when he represented them for the first time in the Second XI Championship.
Finney played Second XI cricket and Under-25 cricket for the next four years before breaking through into the Peakites' first-team squad. He made his first appearance as a lower-middle order batsman in 1982, and played in the County Championship consistently until 1988, when he suffered from a dip in his bowling form and found himself out of the first XI. He continued for a season in the second team, though come 1989, he was out of Derbyshire altogether, as the team cleared their ranks after two consecutive mediocre seasons.
In this year, he started playing Minor Counties Cricket for Norfolk
, in the Minor Counties Championship and, in the final game of his career, as an opening batsman in the NatWest Trophy.
Throughout his career with Derbyshire, he played as a middle-order batsman, and a consistent bowler, with a first-class average with the ball peaking at 27 in 1985.
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 left-arm slow-medium bowler. He first played for the 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...
Second XI in 1978, when he represented them for the first time in the Second XI Championship.
Finney played Second XI cricket and Under-25 cricket for the next four years before breaking through into the Peakites' first-team squad. He made his first appearance as a lower-middle order batsman in 1982, and played in the County Championship consistently until 1988, when he suffered from a dip in his bowling form and found himself out of the first XI. He continued for a season in the second team, though come 1989, he was out of Derbyshire altogether, as the team cleared their ranks after two consecutive mediocre seasons.
In this year, he started playing Minor Counties Cricket for Norfolk
Norfolk County Cricket Club
Norfolk County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Norfolk and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...
, in the Minor Counties Championship and, in the final game of his career, as an opening batsman in the NatWest Trophy.
Throughout his career with Derbyshire, he played as a middle-order batsman, and a consistent bowler, with a first-class average with the ball peaking at 27 in 1985.
External links
- Roger Finney at Cricket Archive