Daniel King (cricketer, born 1983)
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
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| Full name | Daniel Alexander King | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 February 1983 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 10 July 2020 | |||||||||||||||
| Academic background | |||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Australian National University (BA) University of Exeter (MA) Merton College, Oxford (DPhil) | ||||||||||||||
| Thesis | Painful stories: the experience of pain and its narration in the Greek literature of the Imperial period (100-250) (2011) | ||||||||||||||
| Doctoral advisor | Tim Whitmarsh | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Classics | ||||||||||||||
| Sub-discipline | Greek culture | ||||||||||||||
Daniel Alexander King (born 26 February 1983) is an Australian academic who lectures in Classics and a former first-class cricketer.
King was born in Canberra, and studied Classics at the Australian National University.[1] He completed an MA in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Exeter, then gained a DPhil at Merton College at the University of Oxford.[2][1]
Since 2012, King has taught classics at the University of Exeter, where he is Leventis Lecturer in the Impact of Greek Culture.[1][3]
Cricket career
While studying at Oxford, King made two appearances in first-class cricket for Oxford University against Cambridge University in The University Matches of 2009 and 2010.[4] In the 2010 fixture, King scored 189 runs opening the batting in the Oxford first innings of 611 for 5 declared, sharing in an opening partnership of 259 in 218 minutes with Sam Agarwal. He then kept wicket through the two Cambridge innings, taking two catches and not conceding a bye as Oxford went on to an innings victory.[5] In his two innings in the 2009 match he had scored just 2 runs.[6]