Michael Page (cricketer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Michael Page (cricketer)

English cricketer

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1996

Place of Birth: Blackpool, England, United Kingdom

Profession: cricketer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Michael Page (cricketer)

  • Michael Harry Page (born 17 June 1941) is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1964 and 1975. Page was born in Blackpool.
  • He began his career with Nottinghamshire and Lancashire, for whom he played briefly for the Second XI, though it was with Derbyshire that he was to decide to play first-class cricket.
  • He signed a professional contract in 1964.
  • Page's Derbyshire debut, in June 1964, was a steady one, as he scored 25 and aided team-mate Edwin Smith in a seventh-wicket partnership of 57 against Worcestershire.
  • In August of the same year he scored 112 against Leicestershire at Chesterfield, the first of nine centuries which included a career-best of 162 against Leicestershire in 1969. Page also helped the Derbyshire team to the runners-up spot in the Gillette Cup competition of 1969.
  • He remained a first-team choice for Derbyshire until his final match for the first team in August 1975.
  • 1975 was one of six seasons in which he scored more than 1000 runs.Page was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler.
  • At the beginning of his career he bowled occasionally, and he took four wickets on one occasion for Derbyshire's Second XI.
  • Though there was an early attempt to turn him into an opener, his primary role ultimately became that of a middle-order batsman.

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