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English cricket coach and a former first-class cricketer

Kevin Sharp
Personal information
Full nameKevin Sharp
Born (1959-04-06) 6 April 1959 (age 65)
Leeds, Yorkshire, England
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm off break
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 218 217
Runs scored 9,962 5,049
Batting average 30.84 27.44
100s/50s 14/47 3/30
Top score 181 114
Balls bowled 1,262 187
Wickets 12 6
Bowling average 73.91 28.83
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 2/13 4/40
Catches/stumpings 107/– 71/–
Source: CricketArchive, 16 August 2022

Kevin Sharp (born 6 April 1959) is an English cricket coach and a former first-class cricketer. He was educated at Abbey Grange High School in Leeds.

Sharp succeeded the long-serving Steve Rhodes as Worcestershire Head Coach in 2018.

He had a fourteen-year first-class career playing for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Griqualand West cricket team. He was a left-handed batsman and bowled right-arm off-spin.

Unlike his contemporary David Gower, this curly haired left-handed batsman failed to do justice to his talent, and did not win the England cap predicted, after he scored 260* for England Young Cricketers in 1978.

Sharp made his first-class debut for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1976, and was awarded his cap in 1982. As well as Yorkshire, he spent three seasons with Griqualand West in South Africa between 1981 and 1984, playing seventeen first-class matches, and averaging just under 40.

After finishing his Yorkshire first-class career in 1990, Sharp played for Shropshire in the Minor Counties from 1993 to 1997, while playing club cricket for Bridgnorth, and Ossett in Yorkshire.

After retiring from the game he has worked as a batting coach for Yorkshire, and as an umpire. He was appointed as Head Coach of Worcestershire on 12 January 2018.

References

  1. Percival, Tony (1999). Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998. A.C.S. Publications, Nottingham. p. 38. ISBN 1-902171-17-9. Published under Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
  2. ^ Warner, David (2011). The Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook (113th ed.). Ilkley, Yorkshire: Great Northern Books. p. 377. ISBN 978-1-905080-85-4.
  3. Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998, pages 38,58.

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