Stephen Charles Booth was a first-class cricket

Cricket

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er who played for Somerset County Cricket Club

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 from 1983 to 1985.

Born at Cross Gates in Leeds

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, Booth attended Boston Spa Comprehensive School and made his debut as a right-handed batsman and slow left-arm orthodox bowler in a Somerset side boasting such talents as Joel Garner

Joel Garner

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 and Viv Richards

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.

In 33 first-class

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 matches he took 87 wickets, with a best of 4/26, at an average of 36.31. He scored 202 runs, with a highest score of 42, at 10.63.

Peter Roebuck

Peter Roebuck

Peter Michael Roebuck was an English cricketer who achieved later renown as an Australian newspaper columnist and radio commentator. A consistent county performer with over 25,000 runs, and "one of the better English openers of the 1980s", Roebuck captained the English county side Somerset...

 nicknamed him 'Heathcliff

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' in his published diary of a county season.