David Mark Wheatman was an English

English people

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 cricket

Cricket

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er. Wheatman was a right-handed batsman who bowled left-arm fast-medium

Fast bowling

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. He was born in Kendal

Kendal

Kendal, anciently known as Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market town and civil parish within the South Lakeland District of Cumbria, England...

, Westmorland

Westmorland

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 and was educated at Kendal Grammar School.

Wheatman made his debut for Cumberland

Cumberland County Cricket Club

Cumberland County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Cumberland and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...

 in the 1990 Minor Counties Championship against Suffolk

Suffolk County Cricket Club

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. He played Minor counties cricket for Cumberland infrequently to 2000, including 23 Minor Counties Championship matches and six MCCA Knockout Trophy

MCCA Knockout Trophy

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 matches. Wheatman made his List A against Kent

Kent County Cricket Club

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 in the 2000 NatWest Trophy

2000 NatWest Trophy

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. He played three further List A matches for the county to 2001. In his four List A matches, he scored 9 runs at a batting average

Batting average

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 of 4.50, with a high score of 8*

Not out

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. With the ball he took 2 wickets at a bowling average

Bowling average

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 of 37.50, with best figures of 2/23.

Outside of the county game

County cricket

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, he played for Netherfield Cricket Club

Netherfield Cricket Club

Netherfield Cricket Club Ground is a cricket ground in Kendal, Cumbria . The first recorded match on the ground was in 1864, when Kendal played an All-England Eleven. The ground hosted its first Minor Counties Championship match in 1956, when Cumberland played the Lancashire Second XI...

 and was employed as an insurance broker with Talbot Insurance Brokers. He died in St John's Hospice, Lancaster

Lancaster, Lancashire

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, Lancashire

Lancashire

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 on October 24, 2004 following a two year battle with cancer

Cancer

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, leaving behind his partner and one daughter.

External links

• David Wheatman at ESPNcricinfo
• David Wheatman at CricketArchive
  CricketArchive
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