Nick Gandon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Cricket player
Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1956
Place of Birth: Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Nick Gandon
- Nicholas John Charles Gandon (born 7 July 1956) is a former English cricketer.
- Gandon was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break.
- He was born in Leicester, Leicestershire. Gandon made his debut in county cricket for Hertfordshire in the 1975 Minor Counties Championship.
- Following his time at Durham University, where he captained both the cricket and hockey teams, he made his first-class debut for Oxford University against Hampshire in 1979.
- He made 7 further first-class appearances for the University, all coming in 1979, with the last coming against the touring Sri Lankans.
- In his 8 first-class matches, he scored 170 runs at an average of 14.16, with a high score of 38.
- 1979 also saw him make his List A debut for Combined Universities against Essex in the Benson & Hedges Cup.After leaving Oxford University (he had also studied at Durham University while at Oxford), Gandon proceeded to play Minor counties cricket for Hertfordshire until 1988.
- He joined Lincolnshire for the 1989 season, making his debut for the county against Hertfordshire in the 1989 Minor Counties Championship.
- He played Minor counties cricket for Lincolnshire from 1989 to 1993, making 35 Minor Counties Championship appearances and 9 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.
- He played his first List A appearances for Lincolnshire against Gloucestershire in the 1990 NatWest Trophy, a match in which he scored 31 runs before being dismissed by Mark Alleyne.
- He made his second and final List A appearance for Lincolnshire in the 1991 NatWest Trophy against Nottinghamshire, with Gandon being dismissed by Mark Crawley.
- Leaving Lincolnshire at the end of the 1993 season, Gandon returned to Hertfordshire, where he played Minor counties cricket from 1994 to 1996.Professionally, Gandon worked in a number of independent schools, where he held a range of senior management positions.
- In 2003 he was appointed Director of the Cricket Foundation, where he devised and implemented the Chance to Shine campaign.In May 2009, Nick Gandon launched third-sector fundraising company Cause4 with Michelle Wright and Charles Pike.
- In 2013 he founded Aureus Social Ventures which offers consultancy services to charities, social enterprises and socially-driven businesses.
- Outside of his professional life Gandon is Chairman of Hoddesdon Cricket Club, Chairman of a homelessness charity and a trustee of a prison mentoring charity.
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