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Paul Michael Davidge (English Cricketer)
[edit]Paul Michael Davidge was born on 5 January 1982 in Harlow, Essex and he is an English Cricketer[1]. Educated at Burnt Mill School in Harlow before completing two years of study at The Bishop's Stortford High School, Paul started his career, playing for Kent Second XI in 2000. Paul then played in the Under 19 ECB County Championship for Hertfordshire CCC between 2000 and 2001 making his debut against Herefordshire CCC at Haileybury School in 2000. Paul captained the County in all of their championship matches during the 2001 season. He made his Senior Minor County debut for Berkshire in 2003 against Wiltshire at Westbury CC [2]. During the 2003 season Paul made his debut for Middlesex, in the second XI, against The Army [3].
Paul played for the English Universities and was part of of the vicious team that were crowned champions of the British Universities Home Nations Championship in Cardiff in 2005.
Davidge went on to play for Bedfordshire CCC in the Minory Counties Championship in 2005 making his debut against Suffolk CCC at Luton town CC and then for Wiltshire in 2006, 2007 and 2008, making his debut for them against Wales Minor Counties in 2006 at Abergavenny CC. Paul also played for Wiltshire in the Minor Counties One Day Trophy making his debut for them against Oxfordshire CCC in 2006, and he was part of the successful team who were defeated in the Semi Finals of the one day cup in 2006. Davidge also played for Huntingdonshire CCC from 2008 to 2011 [4] with one of his stand out performances came when he took 6 dismissals against Northumberland in a two day match in 2009, at Tynemouth CC [5].
Paul played for the MCC in many secretaries out matches between 2006 and 2012 and he captained the side against Durham MCCU at the Racecourse Ground and finished with scores of 1 and 52 in the sides two innings [6]. Paul Davidge completed three stints as an overseas player for A Grade clubs in Victoria [7], Western Australia [8] and Queensland [9] between 2008 and 2011. Paul played representative cricket whilst in Australia played for the Victorian Crusaders during his spell in Victoria in 2008 and Queensland SDCA during his time in the state in 2011.
Paul finished his career for the MCC in 2012 in the European Intercontinental Twenty20 tournament in the Netherlands where he played in matches against Jersey Cricket Board, France and the Netherlands [10].
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