Q:Stephen John Adshead (born 29 January 1980 in Redditch Worcestershire) is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper who in nearly six years as a first-class cricketer has played for Gloucestershire Herefordshire Leicestershire and Worcestershire.Adshead's first-class best of 156 not out came against Essex in 2009.He was released by Gloucestershire at the end of the 2009 season [1] having played 70 of his 73 first-class games for the county. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Athlete