Colin Lever
Personal information
Full name
Colin Lever
Born (1939-08-04) 4 August 1939
Todmorden, Yorkshire, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RelationsPeter Lever (brother)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1965Minor Counties
1962–1978Buckinghamshire
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 1 8
Runs scored 20 69
Batting average 10.00 11.50
100s/50s –/– –/–
Top score 12 20
Balls bowled 78 468
Wickets 2 7
Bowling average 11.50 43.00
5 wickets in innings – –
10 wickets in match – –
Best bowling 1/5 3/19
Catches/stumpings –/– 2/–
Source: Cricinfo, 3 May 2011

Colin Lever (born 4 August 1939) is a former English cricketer. Lever was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Todmorden, Yorkshire.

Lever made his debut for Buckinghamshire in the 1962 Minor Counties Championship against Oxfordshire. He played Minor counties cricket for Buckinghamshire from 1962 to 1978, which included 91 Minor Counties Championship matches.[1] In 1965, he made his List A debut against Middlesex in the Gillette Cup. He played seven further List A matches for Buckinghamshire, the last coming against Middlesex in the 1975 Gillette Cup.[2] In these eight matches, he scored 69 runs at a batting average of 11.50, with a high score of 20.[3] With the ball he took 7 wickets at a bowling average of 43.00, with best figures of 3/19.[4]

During his career, Lever made a single first-class appearance for a combined Minor Counties cricket team against the touring South Africans in 1965 at Osborne Avenue, Jesmond.[5] In this match he took 3 wickets in the South Africans first-innings, those of Graeme Pollock, Colin Bland and Norman Crookes. In the Minor Counties first-innings he was dismissed for 12 by Jackie Botten, before taking a further South African wicket in their second-innings. In the Minor Counties second-innings scored 8 runs before being dismissed by off spinner Norman Crookes.[6]

He played as the professional for Heywood in the Central Lancashire League for nine consecutive seasons from 1968 to 1976, leading Heywood to the championship three times.[7]

Lever then moved to play in the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition and, after a spell with Liverpool CC, joined the Northern Cricket Club in 1979. Over the next ten seasons he hit 4 first team centuries and took 7 or more wickets in an innings on 7 occasions. He captained the club for three seasons from 1980 to 1982. Most notably he celebrated his 40th birthday by scoring an undefeated 104 and taking 7 wickets for 28 runs against neighbours Bootle on 4 August 1979. In 1992 in a second team fixture, he took 7 wickets for 56 at the age of 53..

He is the brother of Peter Lever, who played Test and One Day International cricket for England.

References

  1. ↑ "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Colin Lever". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
  2. ↑ "List A Matches played by Colin Lever". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
  3. ↑ "List A Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Colin Lever". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
  4. ↑ "List A Bowling For Each Team by Colin Lever". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
  5. ↑ "First-Class Matches played by Colin Lever". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
  6. ↑ "Minor Counties v South Africans, 1965". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
  7. ↑ Heywood CC pro stats
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