Chris Taylor (cricketer, born 1976)
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| Full name | Christopher Glyn Taylor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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27 September 1976 Bristol, England |
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| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1999-2011 | Gloucestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: [1], 4 July 2015
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Christopher Glyn Taylor (born 27 September 1976 in Bristol) is an English cricketer.
Chris Taylor is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler, who occasionally takes position as a wicket-keeper. He played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire (2000–2011). Since leaving Gloucester in 2011, Taylor has taken up an array of coaching roles, most notably joining England as fielding coach in 2014.
Taylor's first opportunity in first-class cricket came against Middlesex in 2000, where he hit a century on his debut for the side. Covering extensively as a wicket-keeper throughout his first year of cricket, he found himself in one of his first cricket matches up against a touring Zimbabwe team. Having aided Gloucestershire through five seasons of Division Two cricket, he was instrumental in their rise to Division One of the County Championship for 2004, the year he was made captain of the four-day side by player-coach Mark Alleyne.
Despite managing to keep a strong hold on his middle-order batting position during his first season in the top division, he was unable to stop his Gloucestershire side from dropping to Division Two once again in the year 2005. For 2006 he lost the position of captain to Jon Lewis.
2007 proved to be one of his best seasons with the club, as he scored over 1000 runs and averaged 42.34 with the bat.
In 2011 he had another stellar season, scoring 1,139 runs, and in the process becoming Gloucester's leading run scorer for the season.
Despite having a hugely successful career at Gloucester, which included winning seven one day trophies with the club, his departure was controversial and he took the County to a tribunal for unfair dismissal after his contract was not renewed after 2011, due to the County being in a poor financial position. A settlement was eventually reached and Taylor retired from playing to focus on coaching.
Taylor's first move into coaching came in 2008 when he was appointed Gloucester fielding coach in 2008 while still playing for the club. He left in 2011 when his contract with the club expired.
He spent the 2013 season with Somerset working as assistant coach, before moving to Surrey as fielding coach for the 2014 season.
Taylor worked with the England Lions as fielding coach on and off from 2008 to 2014. During this time he also had a brief spell with the Denmark national side, acting as a consultant coach.
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