Kevin Sharp (cricketer)

{{short description|English cricket coach and a former first-class cricketer (born 1959)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}}

{{Use British English|date=January 2018}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Kevin Sharp

| image =

| caption =

| country =

| fullname = Kevin Sharp

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|4|6|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Leeds, Yorkshire, England

| batting = Left-handed

| bowling = Right-arm off break

| columns = 2

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 218

| runs1 = 9,962

| bat avg1 = 30.84

| 100s/50s1 = 14/47

| top score1 = 181

| deliveries1 = 1,262

| wickets1 = 12

| bowl avg1 = 73.91

| fivefor1 = 0

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 2/13

| catches/stumpings1= 107/–

| column2 = List A

| matches2 = 217

| runs2 = 5,049

| bat avg2 = 27.44

| 100s/50s2 = 3/30

| top score2 = 114

| deliveries2 = 187

| wickets2 = 6

| bowl avg2 = 28.83

| fivefor2 = 0

| tenfor2 = 0

| best bowling2 = 4/40

| catches/stumpings2= 71/–

| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/10/10735/10735.html CricketArchive

| date = 16 August

| year = 2022

}}

Kevin Sharp (born 6 April 1959) is an English cricket coach and a former first-class cricketer. He was educated at Abbey Grange High School in Leeds.{{cite book |last=Percival |first=Tony |year=1999 |title=Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998 |publisher=A.C.S. Publications, Nottingham |isbn=1-902171-17-9 |page=38}} Published under Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.

Sharp succeeded the long-serving Steve Rhodes as Worcestershire Head Coach in 2018.

He had a fourteen-year first-class career playing for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Griqualand West cricket team.{{cite book |last=Warner |first=David |year=2011 |title=The Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook |edition=113th |publisher=Great Northern Books |location=Ilkley, Yorkshire |isbn=978-1-905080-85-4 |page=377}} He was a left-handed batsman and bowled right-arm off-spin.

Unlike his contemporary David Gower, this curly haired left-handed batsman failed to do justice to his talent, and did not win the England cap predicted, after he scored 260* for England Young Cricketers in 1978.

Sharp made his first-class debut for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1976, and was awarded his cap in 1982. As well as Yorkshire, he spent three seasons with Griqualand West in South Africa between 1981 and 1984, playing seventeen first-class matches, and averaging just under 40.

After finishing his Yorkshire first-class career in 1990, Sharp played for Shropshire in the Minor Counties from 1993 to 1997, while playing club cricket for Bridgnorth, and Ossett in Yorkshire.Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998, pages 38,58.

After retiring from the game he has worked as a batting coach for Yorkshire, and as an umpire. He was appointed as Head Coach of Worcestershire on 12 January 2018.