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| Full name | David Nicholls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 December 1943 East Dereham, Norfolk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 10 June 2008 (aged 64) Dartford, Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off-spin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Opening batsman, wicketkeeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1960–1980 | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FC debut | 8 June 1960 Kent v Cambridge University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last FC | 8 July 1977 Kent v Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LA debut | 15 June 1969 Kent v Warwickshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last LA | 7 September 1980 Kent v Yorkshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 5 July 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
David Nicholls (8 December 1943 – 10 June 2008), was an English cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club during the 1960s and 1970s. He was born at East Dereham in Norfolk and died at Dartford in Kent in 2008 aged 64.[1]
Nicholls was a powerfully-built left-handed batsman, usually used as an opener, and a wicketkeeper. In both roles, he usually had to play second fiddle to Kent's established stars, being behind Peter Richardson, Brian Luckhurst, Mike Denness and Graham Johnson for most of his career as an opening batsman, and being deputy to Alan Knott as wicketkeeper. In an 18-season first-class cricket career, he played more than 200 matches for Kent, plus almost 100 List A games, but was a regular member of the side with a fixed place in the team for only a couple of years in the early 1970s. In one of those seasons, 1971, he completed exactly 1,000 first-class runs, the only time he passed this particular landmark.[2]