Mark Harman (cricketer)
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| Full name | Mark David Harman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
30 June 1964 Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm off-break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1986–87 | Somerset | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1988–89 | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 20 August 1986 Somerset v Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 20 June 1989 Kent v Somerset | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| List A debut | 24 June 1987 Somerset v Buckinghamshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last List A | 21 August 1988 Kent v Gloucestershire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 27 May 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mark David Harman (born 30 June 1964) played first-class and List A cricket for Somerset in 1986 and 1987 and for Kent in 1988 and 1989.[1] He was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
Harman was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-spin bowler. He played for Somerset's second eleven before he was 17, but had to wait more than five years before he made a first-team appearance: the stumbling-block to his career was the presence in the Somerset side of Vic Marks, a much better batsman and an occasional Test off-spinner.[2] In two seasons of first-team cricket with Somerset, Harman played only nine first-class and three limited-overs matches, and took just eight first-class wickets and only one in List A games. His best bowling for Somerset was only two for 38, though he did make his highest first-class score, 41, in the match against Kent at Bath.[3] At the end of the 1987 season, he took up a contract with Kent.
The move to Kent brought somewhat more regular first-team cricket, though Harman was largely restricted to the first-class team, playing only one List A match in his two years with the county. The 1988 season brought his two best bowling performances. Against Oxford University he took five wickets for 55 runs.[4] Then in August he took five Leicestershire second-innings wickets out of the seven that fell in a drawn match.[5] Having played in half of Kent's first-class matches in 1988, however, Harman reverted to being a fringe player in 1989: he had his best match return with nine wickets for 136 runs in the game against Cambridge University.[6] But was picked for only one other match, and at the end of the season he left the staff to take up a career in accountancy.[2]
Mark married Maria in 1989. They have two children, Harry and Arthur.
References
- ↑ "Mark Harman". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
- 1 2 David Foot & Ivan Ponting. Somerset Cricket: A Post-War Who's Who (1993 ed.). Redcliffe Books. p. 54. ISBN 1-872971-23-7.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Somerset v Kent". www.cricketarchive.com. 17 June 1987. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Oxford University v Kent". www.cricketarchive.com. 18 May 1988. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Kent v Leicestershire". www.cricketarchive.com. 3 August 1988. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Cambridge University v Kent". www.cricketarchive.com. 17 May 1989. Retrieved 26 May 2011.