Ian Payne (English cricketer)
English cricketer
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Ian Roger Payne (born 9 May 1958) is a former English cricketer.
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| Full name | Ian Roger Payne | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 May 1958 Kennington, London | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1977–1984 | Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1985–1986 | Gloucestershire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1994–1997 | Shropshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 16 July 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Payne was a right-arm medium-pace bowler and right-handed lower-order batsman. He was educated at Emanuel School and won The Cricket Society Wetherall Award for the leading all-rounder in English schools cricket in 1976, when he scored 1144 runs at an average of 52.00 and took 79 wickets at 8.68.[1]
He played first-class cricket for Surrey from 1977 to 1984 and Gloucestershire in 1985 and 1986, and later played Minor Counties cricket for Shropshire from 1994 to 1997.[2] He won the man of the match award when he took 3 for 20 off 11 overs to help Surrey to a three-run victory in a semi-final of the Benson & Hedges Cup in 1981.[3]
Payne's best first-class bowling figures were 5 for 13 in Surrey's innings victory over Gloucestershire in 1983.[4] His best List A figures were 5 for 21 against Derbyshire in 1982.[5]
Payne, who has played for Oswestry Cricket Club,[6] is a director, and his wife Jools is the principal, of the Oswestry PR company The Jools Payne Partnership.[7][8]