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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name = David Ashworth<br />
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| full_name = David Anthony Ashworth<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|7|18|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Rani, Rajasthan]], India<br />
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| batting = Right-handed<br />
| bowling = Right arm [[off spin|off-break]]<br />
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| club1 = [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]]<br />
| year1 = 1966–1967<br />
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| date = 18 March 2017<br />
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/8805.html ESPNcricinfo<br />
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'''David Anthony Ashworth''' (born 18 July 1944) is an English former [[cricket]]er. He played seven [[first-class cricket|first-class]] matches for [[Oxford University Cricket Club]] in 1966 and 1967.<ref name="Bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/8805.html |title=David Ashworth |access-date=18 March 2017 |work=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref><br />
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Educated at [[Uppingham School]], Ashworth made two [[Second XI Championship|Second XI]] appearances for [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex]] in 1963,<ref>{{cite book |title=OXFORD UNIVERSITY CRICKETERS - A to D |date=2023 |publisher=ACS |page=7 |url=https://acscricket.com/wp-content/uploads/Oxford-University-Cricketers-A-D-March-2023.pdf |access-date=26 April 2024}}</ref> before studying law at [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford]].<ref name="seh">{{cite magazine |date=October 2017 |title=The Aularian Golfing Society |url=https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/asset/St-Edmund-Hall-Magazine-2016-17.pdf |volume=18 |issue=10 |magazine=St Edmund Hall Magazine |access-date=26 April 2024}}</ref> In May 1966 he scored 120 playing for [[Free Foresters Cricket Club|Free Foresters]] against Oxford University, prompting the university to give him a first-class debut against Middlesex a day later.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Gilliat |first=Ivor |title=Oxford University |url=https://magazine.cricketarchive.com/Magazine/1966/vol_47_no_8/38/index.html |magazine=The Cricketer |publication-date=17 June 1966 |volume=47 |issue=8 |page=37 |via=CricketArchive |access-date=26 April 2024}}</ref> He made three appearances over the following fortnight and the following April played three further matches against county sides.<ref>{{cite web |title=First-class matches played by David Ashworth (7) |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/27/27547/First-Class_Matches.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=26 April 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In his penultimate game he recorded his only first-class fifty in making 67 against [[Surrey County Cricket Club|Surrey]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Oxford University v Surrey, The University Parks, Oxford on 29th April, 1st, 2nd May 1967 |url=https://www.cricketarchive.com/Surrey/Scorecards/28/28661.html |website=Surrey CricketArchive |access-date=26 April 2024}}</ref><br />
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Ashworth played for Uppingham Rovers in The Cricketer Cup from 1968 to 1993,<ref>{{cite web |title=Cricketer Cup matches played by David Ashworth (39) |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/264/264648.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=26 April 2024 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> this included captaining the side in the 1979 final against Old Tonbridgians<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Tonbridge – but oh! it's so close |url=https://magazine.cricketarchive.com/Magazine/1979/vol_60_no_10/42/index.html |magazine=The Cricketer |publication-date=October 1979 |volume=60 |issue=10 |page=41 |via=CricketArchive |access-date=26 April 2024}}</ref> and taking 8/42 with his off-spin against St Edward's Martyrs in 1991.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Chesterton |first1=George |title=A glorious innings from Carr |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0501857699/TTDA?u=mclib&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=b2ebb3d8 |access-date=26 April 2024 |work=The Times |date=11 June 1991 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><br />
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A keen golfer,<ref name="seh"/> he was Director of Richmond Golf Club from 2017 to 2023.<ref>{{cite web |title=David Anthony ASHWORTH |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/_8rKO75DnD4gv1KfNBjdwvSD-vY/appointments |website=Companies House |access-date=26 April 2024}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of Oxford University Cricket Club players]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
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[[Category:1944 births]]<br />
[[Category:Living people]]<br />
[[Category:English cricketers]]<br />
[[Category:Oxford University cricketers]]<br />
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[[Category:Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford]]<br />
[[Category:Cricketers from Rajasthan]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century English sportsmen]]<br />
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