columns catches/stumpings year hidedeliveries birth_date country club heightft batting name fullname birth_place column role source date runs s/s matches heightinch article_title
3 16/0 4/2 0/0 2005 -- 2007 2011 true 13 march 1987 england somerset 6 left-handed sam spurway samuel harold patrick spurway taunton , somerset , england fc la t20 wicket-keeper http://cricketarchive.com/players/64/64105/64105.html cricketarchive 1987 3 13 yes 210 31 15 0/1 0/0 0/0 6 4 1 1 sam spurway

sam spurway

samuel harold patrick spurway -lrb- born march 13 , 1987 -rrb- is an english cricketer .
he is a left-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for somerset before he was released in 2007 .
he was born in taunton .
spurway started his career with twenty20 cricket in 2005 , following two years in the second xi , before playing his debut first-class game in august 2006 .
in his first game , spurway scored 46 runs before being caught out , in an innings victory for somerset .
he continued to play well for the team in a lower-order position , despite somerset finishing 2006 dead last in division two of the county championship .
spurway remained in the team for the start of the 2007 season , as the team were enjoying a current upturn in their fortunes .
the lower-order batsman , who was the preferred wicket-keeper over team-mate carl gazzard , continued to pull in impressive performances in the lower-order , none more so than when he was halted in the middle of a run towards his first half-century on 44 * in a record-setting somerset innings of 850-7 declared in april 2007 .
however , craig kieswetter became somerset 's first-choice wicketkeeper after some impressive performances in the one-day side .
the club now maintains a policy to have only two wicketkeepers in their squad , which meant that kieswetter and gazzard were retained , at the expense of spurway .
