Cameron Merchant
New Zealand cricketer
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Cameron James Merchant (born 4 January 1984) is an Australian cricketer living in Sydney.
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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| Full name | Cameron James Merchant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 January 1984 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off-break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2007/08–2008/09 | Northern Districts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009/10–2010/11 | Wellington | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Career
After a Second XI career in Australia, moved to New Zealand to play first class cricket for Northern Districts from 2007. A left-handed batsman and occasional right-arm off-break bowler, Merchant continually alternated between Northern Districts' First and Second XIs into the 2009 season.[1] During his career, he has scored more than 1,000 runs in First and Second XI cricket, including two centuries and five half-centuries.[2] He was formerly a professional at the Toronto Cricket Club in Canada.[3]
Merchant is now the stand-in first grade captain of Manly Warringah District Cricket Club in Sydney Grade Cricket.[4]
Personal life
In 2019, he appeared on the Australian version of Married at First Sight, where he 'married' 36-year-old Jules Robinson in an episode originally aired on 28 January 2019.[5] They legally married in November 2019, and their first child, Oliver Chase Merchant, was born on 3 October 2020.[6]
