Simon Alexander Ross Ferguson (born 13 May 1961) played List A cricket

Cricket

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 for Suffolk

Suffolk County Cricket Club

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 in 1984 and first-class cricket

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 for Somerset

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 in 1985. He was born in Lagos

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, Nigeria

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Ferguson was an opening or middle order right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He played Minor Counties cricket for Suffolk in 1983 and 1984, and that led to his solitary List A appearance in the first-round NatWest Trophy match against Worcestershire

Worcestershire County Cricket Club

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 at New Road, Worcester

New Road, Worcester

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 in 1984, when he made 12 and did not bowl. In 1985, he spent a season with Somerset, but played almost exclusively for the second eleven in the Minor Counties Championship and the Second Eleven Championship; his one first-eleven game came late in a season of turmoil for Somerset, who unexpectedly finished bottom of the County Championship

County Championship

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, and he scored just eight in a single innings against Middlesex

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 at Weston-super-Mare

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. He did not return to Somerset in 1986.

Playing later in club cricket in London, he recommended a New Zealand-born fast bowler Andy Caddick to Somerset's coach, Peter Robinson

Peter Robinson (cricketer)

Peter James Robinson is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Worcestershire and Somerset during the 1960s and 1970s; he also played List A cricket for Somerset, who capped him in 1966...

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