Stephen Crawley was a Scottish cricket

Cricket

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er. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler. He spent his early career playing second XI cricket for Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

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 and Leicestershire

Leicestershire County Cricket Club

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 in addition to minor counties

Minor counties of English cricket

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 cricket for Cheshire

Cheshire County Cricket Club

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, for whom he played a handful of List A matches.

Crawley moved to Scotland

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 through work (eventually becoming managing director of the Caledonian Brewery

Caledonian Brewery

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) and qualified to play for Scotland

Scottish cricket team

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 through residence. He made his début for Scotland against Worcestershire

Worcestershire County Cricket Club

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 on 23 April 1995. He went on to play for Scotland 14 times. He was not selected for the 1999 World Cup

1999 Cricket World Cup

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, but did play in the cricket tournament

Cricket at the 1998 Commonwealth Games

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 at the 1998 Commonwealth Games

1998 Commonwealth Games

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