Kevin Sharp (cricketer)

Kevin Sharp (born 6 April 1959, Leeds, Yorkshire, England) is an English cricket coach and a former first-class cricketer. He was educated at Abbey Grange High School in Leeds.[1]

Kevin Sharp
Personal information
Full nameKevin Sharp
Born (1959-04-06) 6 April 1959
Leeds, Yorkshire, England
BattingLeft-handed batsman
BowlingRight arm off break
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 218 217
Runs scored 9,962 5,049
Batting average 30.84 27.44
100s/50s 14/47 3/30
Top score 181 114
Balls bowled 1262 187
Wickets 12 6
Bowling average 73.91 28.83
5 wickets in innings – –
10 wickets in match – n/a
Best bowling 2/13 4/40
Catches/stumpings 107/– 71/–

Sharp succeeded the long-serving Steve Rhodes as Worcestershire Head Coach in 2018.

He had a fourteen-year first-class career playing for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Griqualand West cricket team.[2] He was a left-handed batsman and bowled right-arm off-spin.

Unlike his contemporary David Gower, this curly haired left-handed batsman failed to do justice to his talent, and did not win the England cap predicted, after he scored 260* for England Young Cricketers in 1978.

Sharp made his first-class debut for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1976, and was awarded his cap in 1982.[2] As well as Yorkshire, he spent three seasons with Griqualand West in South Africa between 1981 and 1984, playing seventeen first-class matches, and averaging just under 40.

After finishing his Yorkshire first-class career in 1990,[2] Sharp played for Shropshire in the Minor Counties from 1993 to 1997, while playing club cricket for Bridgnorth, and Ossett in Yorkshire.[3]

After retiring from the game he has worked as a batting coach for Yorkshire, and as an umpire. He was appointed as Head Coach of Worcestershire on 12 January 2018.

References
  1. Percival, Tony (1999). Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998. A.C.S. Publications, Nottingham. p. 38. ISBN 1-902171-17-9. Published under Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
  2. Warner, David (2011). The Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook (113th ed.). Ilkley, Yorkshire: Great Northern Books. p. 377. ISBN 978-1-905080-85-4.
  3. Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998, pages 38,58.


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