Dermot Reeve
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| Full name | Dermot Alexander Reeve | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
2 April 1963 Kowloon, Hong Kong |
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman (RHB) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1983–1987 | Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1988–1996 | Warwickshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1998 | Somerset | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dermot Alexander Reeve OBE (born 2 April 1963, Kowloon, Hong Kong) is an English former cricketer, best known as an unorthodox all-rounder and captain and, most recently, coach of the New Zealand side, Central Districts.
Reeve played in three tests and twenty nine ODIs for England. He played English county cricket for Sussex, Warwickshire and Somerset. He is a former Hong Kong sports personality of the year, gained for his cricketing efforts in that country.
Reeve first played cricket in England as a member of the MCC Young Cricketers – an academy of up and coming young players between the ages of 18 and 20, who are based at Lord's. He signed for Sussex for the 1983 English season, and took 42 wickets in the County Championship at 29.35 apiece, although he was less successful with the bat and did not reach 50 in his 20 innings that year. He remained with Sussex for six seasons, his most successful being 1987, when he managed a batting average of over 40 and took 42 wickets at under 30.
He moved to Warwickshire in 1988, and it was here that he gained his greatest successes. In the batsman-friendly summer of 1990, he averaged 54, making his highest first-class score of 202 not out (against an attack including Curtly Ambrose), and making two other centuries on the way to a total of 1,412 runs. Reeve was made captain in 1993, and in 1994 led the county to an unprecedented domestic treble, winning the County Championship, the AXA Equity and Law League and the Benson & Hedges Cup, only being defeated in the final of the NatWest Trophy. This achievement came despite well-publicised differences of opinion with Warwickshire's star batsman, Brian Lara, vividly described a few years later by Reeve in his book Winning Ways. One of his improvisations against left-arm spinner, Rajesh Maru, of Hampshire was to drop his bat to avoid being caught out by the close fielders.
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