Charles William Jeffrey Athey was born on 27 September 1957 and is a retired English first-class cricketer, who played for England, and first-class cricket for Gloucestershire, Yorkshire and Sussex; he played a solitary one-day game for Worcestershire.
17 Facts About Bill Athey
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Bill Athey played in 23 Test matches between 1980 and 1988, but scored more than 50 runs only five times in 41 innings.
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In 1990, Bill Athey joined the rebel tour to South Africa.
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Bill Athey was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1987 Cricket World Cup.
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Bill Athey made his debut for his native Yorkshire in 1976, before moving to Gloucestershire in 1984.
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Bill Athey captained the side in 1989, and scored four hundreds in successive innings while there.
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Bill Athey played 467 first-class matches and batted 784 times with 71 not outs.
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Bill Athey scored 25,453 first-class runs, with a best of 184, at an average of 35.69, with 55 centuries and 126 fifties.
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Bill Athey took 429 catches, and 2 stumpings on his rare ventures behind the stumps.
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Bill Athey was a middle order batsman by inclination, but found greatest success at Test level as an opener.
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Bill Athey missed only one of twenty Test matches from 1986 to 1988.
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Bill Athey made his debut in the Centenary Test at Lord's in 1980, and eight years later appeared in the Bicentennial Test in Sydney, along with fellow survivors John Emburey and Mike Gatting.
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Bill Athey was suspended for playing in South Africa in 1990, but the suspension was remitted two years later when South Africa rejoined the world game.
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Bill Athey takes the Second XI football team, and is house master of Old Blew, one of the four Dulwich College boarding houses.
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Bill Athey played football and was on the books of Brentford Reserves in the early 1980s.
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Bill Athey played football for Ringmer FC whiles playing cricket for Sussex in the 90's.
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Politically, Bill Athey is a Conservative, and once appeared on stage at a Conservative Party conference in the 1980s alongside England teammate John Emburey.