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county beneficiaries 2016<br />
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Tim Ambrose (Warwickshire)<br />
Born and raised in New South Wales<br />
but with an English mother, Ambrose<br />
first made his mark in county cricket<br />
as a busy middle order batsman and<br />
athletic wicketkeeper during six<br />
seasons with Sussex.<br />
But he had to compete with Matt<br />
Prior for the wicketkeeping spot at Hove<br />
so Ambrose moved to Warwickshire in<br />
2006 and has been a permanent figure<br />
in their side ever since.<br />
He briefly replaced Prior as<br />
England’s first choice wicketkeeper<br />
and played in 11 Tests, five one day<br />
internationals and a T20 international<br />
between 2008 and 2009.<br />
Ambrose was a County<br />
Championship winner with Sussex in<br />
2003 and again with Warwickshire in<br />
2012. He won the NatWest T20 Blast<br />
with Warwickshire in 2014.<br />
Charities: MIND, Warwickshire Youth Cricket<br />
and Fisher House<br />
Sean Ervine (Hampshire)<br />
Played 47 times for Zimbabwe,<br />
including five Test appearances, before<br />
he left his native country in 2004 and<br />
made his way to Hampshire.<br />
All-rounder Ervine made his county<br />
debut in 2005 and has become a<br />
dependable and popular member of<br />
the Hampshire squad ever since.<br />
He helped Hampshire win the C&G<br />
Cup in 2005 by scoring centuries in<br />
the semi-final and final and played<br />
in further triumphant one day<br />
competition winning sides in 2009<br />
and 2012 as well as winning the T20<br />
Cup in 2010 and 2012.<br />
Ervine briefly flirted with the idea<br />
of returning to international cricket<br />
with Zimbabwe in 2009/10 when he<br />
signed to play for Southern Rocks<br />
alongside his brother Craig but<br />
instead remained loyal to Hampshire.<br />
Charities: Naomi House & Jacksplace and<br />
The Southampton Hospital Charity<br />
Daryl Mitchell (Worcestershire)<br />
Worcestershire through and through,<br />
Mitchell progressed through the<br />
youth system at New Road, via a<br />
scholarship contract at Worcester<br />
University into the first team squad.<br />
When he succeeded Vikram<br />
Solanki as captain in 2010 Badseyborn<br />
Mitchell became the first<br />
Worcestershire-born captain of the<br />
county since 1925.<br />
A reliable and adaptable opening<br />
batsman Mitchell is also a useful<br />
medium pace seamer who has proved<br />
particularly effective in white ball<br />
cricket.<br />
Mitchell, a former pupil of Prince<br />
Henry’s School in Evesham, made his<br />
Worcestershire debut in 2005 and<br />
has scored more than 9,000 first-class<br />
runs with more than 2,500 in List A<br />
and 1,600 in T20 cricket.<br />
Charities: pca Benevolent Fund and Odd Balls<br />
stevens<br />
66 BtB issue 18 / thepca.co.uk
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