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Full name Daniel John Birch
Born January 21, 1981, Nottingham
Current age 27 years 260 days
Major teams Derbyshire,Kent 2nd XI
Nickname Birchy
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast
Height
6 ft 3 in
Education Kimbersley Comprehensive
Relations Father - JD Birch
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
First-class
16
27
1
888
130
34.15
1598
55.56
1
4
123
14
7
0
List A
16
15
0
369
76
24.60
423
87.23
0
2
57
7
3
0
Twenty20
11
10
2
116
25
14.50
137
84.67
0
0
14
0
2
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
List A
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Twenty20
11
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Career statistics
First-class debut
Cambridge UCCE v Derbyshire at Cambridge, Apr 25-27, 2007 scorecard
Last First-class
Derbyshire v Gloucestershire at Derby, Sep 17-20, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
Durham v Derbyshire at Chester-le-Street, Apr 29, 2007 scorecard
Last List A
Derbyshire v Warwickshire at Derby, Sep 13, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Derbyshire v West Indians at Derby, Jun 24, 2007 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Leicestershire v Derbyshire at Leicester, Jun 27, 2008 scorecard
Profile
For Dan Birch cricket runs in the family. His father spent 16 years with Nottinghamshire, playing over 250 games from 1973 to 1988, and Dan was on
the books at Trent Bridge as a schoolboy. He spent eight years playing in the
Derbyshire Premier League and eventually things started to happen for him in
2006 when he played at second-team level for Kent. Two half-centuries on his
debut, as well as a century against the MCC Young Cricketers in a 50-over
match, earned him a one-year contract at Derbyshire and he immediately repaid
their faith by scoring 130 against Cambridge UCCE at Fenners in the season opener.
He is a tall left-handed batsman who stands still at the crease and regards himself as an entertainer saying: "I'm an aggressive, big-hitting batsman" so it is
no surprise that his first few outings have been in Derbyshire's one-day
matches. He hit 95 on his Championship debut against Gloucestershire when he was given the chance to open.
Despite missing the end of the campaign through injury - Birch showed enough glimpses of his explosive potential at the top of the order to merit a new deal.
