Kevin Sharp (cricketer)

Kevin Sharp
Personal information
Full name	Kevin Sharp
Born	6 April 1959 (age 65); Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Batting	Left-handed
Bowling	Right-arm off break
Career statistics
	Source: CricketArchive, 16 August 2022

Kevin Sharp (born 6 April 1959) is an English cricket coach and a former first-class cricketer. He was educated at Abbey Grange High School in Leeds.^[1]

Sharp succeeded the long-serving Steve Rhodes as Worcestershire Head Coach in 2018.

He had a fourteen-year first-class career playing for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Griqualand West cricket team.^[2] He was a left-handed batsman and bowled right-arm off-spin.

Unlike his contemporary David Gower, this curly haired left-handed batsman failed to do justice to his talent, and did not win the England cap predicted, after he scored 260* for England Young Cricketers in 1978.

Sharp made his first-class debut for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1976, and was awarded his cap in 1982.^[2] As well as Yorkshire, he spent three seasons with Griqualand West in South Africa between 1981 and 1984, playing seventeen first-class matches, and averaging just under 40.

After finishing his Yorkshire first-class career in 1990,^[2] Sharp played for Shropshire in the Minor Counties from 1993 to 1997, while playing club cricket for Bridgnorth, and Ossett in Yorkshire.^[3]

After retiring from the game he has worked as a batting coach for Yorkshire, and as an umpire. He was appointed as Head Coach of Worcestershire on 12 January 2018.

References

^ Percival, Tony (1999). Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998. A.C.S. Publications, Nottingham. p. 38. ISBN 1-902171-17-9. Published under Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
^ ^a ^b ^c Warner, David (2011). The Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook (113th ed.). Ilkley, Yorkshire: Great Northern Books. p. 377. ISBN 978-1-905080-85-4.
^ Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998, pages 38,58.

External links

Kevin Sharp at ESPNcricinfo

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[1] Percival, Tony (1999). Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998. A.C.S. Publications, Nottingham. p. 38. ISBN 1-902171-17-9. Published under Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.

[YB-2] Warner, David (2011). The Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook (113th ed.). Ilkley, Yorkshire: Great Northern Books. p. 377. ISBN 978-1-905080-85-4.

[3] Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998, pages 38,58.

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