Will House (cricketer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Will House (cricketer)

cricketer

Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1976

Place of Birth: Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Profession: cricketer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Will House (cricketer)

  • William John House (born 16 March 1976) is an English former professional cricketer.
  • In 1993, three years before the start of his first-class career, House won "The Cricket Society Wetherall Award for the Leading All-Rounder in English Schools Cricket".
  • He was born in Sheffield in South Yorkshire.House started his first-class cricket career playing for Cambridge University.
  • After making his first-class debut in April 1996 against Glamorgan in a university match he won his Blue later the same season in the University Match against Oxford.
  • He played for the University side for three years, making a total of 22 first-class appearances for the team.
  • He played List A cricket regularly for the British Universities side in the 1997 and 1998 Benson & Hedges cup competitions and played one first-class match for the side.Having first played for the Second XI in 1994, he made his First XI debut for Kent County Cricket Club in the 1996 AXA Equity & Law League, playing four times for the team.
  • In 1997 he made his County Championship debut against Essex in August before appearing for the county against the touring Australians later in the same month.
  • A further Championship appearance followed in 1998 and in 1999 he played in one first-class match against his old University at the beginning of the season and regularly for the Kent List A team.He was selected by MCC to go on their tour of Bangladesh in January 2000 and at the beginning of the 2000 season House moved to Sussex County Cricket Club.
  • He was a more regular member of the Sussex team for two seasons, especially in List A competitions, playing in nine first-class and 64 List A matches for the county before he retired from professional cricket in September 2002 and took a job in the financial services industry in London.House played a total of 37 first-class and 97 List A matches in his career, generally as an upper-middle order batsman.
  • In club cricket he appeared for Sevenoaks Vine in Kent and Horsham Cricket Club.
  • He has continued playing cricket for amateur sides such as MCC since his retirement from the professional game.

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