Steve Goldsmith (cricketer)
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Ashford, Kent
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| Full name | Steven Clive Goldsmith | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 December 1964 Ashford, Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1986–1987 | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1988–1992 | Derbyshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1993–2003 | Norfolk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FC debut | 2 September 1987 Kent v Warwickshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last FC | 3 July 1992 Derbyshire v Somerset | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LA debut | 17 August 1986 Kent v Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last LA | 28 August 2003 Norfolk v Lincolnshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Steven Clive Goldsmith (born 19 December 1964) is an English former professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent and Derbyshire County Cricket Clubs between 1986 and 1992 before moving to play for Norfolk County Cricket Club in 1993. He was born at Ashford, Kent in 1964 and educated at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury.[1]
Goldsmith played as a batting all-rounder who bowled right-arm medium-pace deliveries as a "serviceable sixth bowler" in one-day cricket.[2] He first appeared for Kent's Second XI in 1982 and made his senior debut in the 1986 John Player Special League. Aged 22, he made his first-class debut for Kent the following September, after playing what The Times described as "some stunningly confident shots" in a one-day match during August.[3] The paper went on to say that "a great deal more will be heard of him",[3] but he was released by the county at the end of the season after only five senior appearances.[4][5]
A move to Derbyshire for the start of the 1988 season saw Goldsmith play more regularly and he scored 1,071 runs in his first season with the county.[2] He was a regular member of the team, particularly in one-day cricket and was part of the team which reached the final of the 1988 Benson & Hedges Cup, taking "a wonderful catch"[2] on the boundary in the match.[6][7] Injuries during 1989 and 1990 restricted his appearances,[8][9] although he was a member of the Derbyshire team which won the 1990 Sunday League, hitting the winning runs in the match which clinched the trophy.[2][10] The following season, Goldsmith was the only Derbyshire bowler to hit the stumps in the teams loss to Hertfordshire in a bowl-out in the 1991 NatWest Trophy.[11]