Tim Cruickshank
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Tim Cruickshank is a New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

 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 is a right hand batsman and rarely bowls. He is a regular in the Manly-Warringah Waratahs (a Sydney Grade Cricket
Sydney Grade Cricket
Sydney Grade Cricket is a cricket competition played in Sydney, Australia. The competition began in 1893 when a number of clubs, which had been playing for many years on an ad hoc basis, voted to create a formal competition structure....

 club) and made his debut for New South Wales in the 2010/11 Ryobi One Day Cup - a provincial cricket tournament in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. In his debut against Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

 at the Brisbane Cricket Ground
Brisbane Cricket Ground
The Brisbane Cricket Ground, commonly known as The Gabba, is a major sports stadium in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland. It is named after the suburb of Woolloongabba, in which it is located....

 on 29 October 2010, Cruickshank made 8 off 16 balls. He has recently signed with the Sydney Thunder
Sydney Thunder
The Sydney Thunder are a franchise in Australia's newly announced Twenty20 cricket competition, the Big Bash League.Along with the Sydney Sixers they are be the successors of the New South Wales Blues who played in the now-defunct KFC Twenty20 Big Bash. The Thunder will play out of ANZ Stadium in...

 in the newly formed Big Bash League
Big Bash League
The KFC t20 Big Bash League is the Australian domestic Twenty20 cricket tournament. The Big Bash League replaces the previous competition, the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash and will feature city-based franchises instead of the state teams which had participated previously. The inaugural season will begin...

. Cruickshank has also played for New South Wales second XI and the New South Wales under 17 and 19s.

He is a longtime follower of Liverpool Football Club in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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 and enjoys playing golf
Golf
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External links

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    . "Tim Cruickshank " Cricinfo
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    . 30 October 2010. http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/385571.html (accessed 27 July 2011).
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