Simon Clements

{{Short description|English cricketer (born 1956)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}

{{Use British English|date=April 2017}}

{{Infobox cricketer

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| country = England

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| fullname = Simon Mark Clements

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1956|4|29|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Felixstowe, Suffolk, England

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| batting = Left-handed

| bowling = Right-arm medium

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| club1 = Minor Counties

| year1 = 1983

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| club2 = Combined Universities

| year2 = 1979

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| club3 = Oxford University

| year3 = 1976–1979

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| club4 = Suffolk

| year4 = 1974–1998

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| columns = 2

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 29

| runs1 = 860

| bat avg1 = 20.47

| 100s/50s1 = –/4

| top score1 = 91

| deliveries1 = 312

| wickets1 = 3

| bowl avg1 = 68.33

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = 1/29

| catches/stumpings1 = 18/–

| column2 = List A

| matches2 = 18

| runs2 = 216

| bat avg2 = 12.50

| 100s/50s2 = –/1

| top score2 = 59

| deliveries2 = 258

| wickets2 = 5

| bowl avg2 = 33.60

| fivefor2 = –

| tenfor2 = –

| best bowling2 = 3/30

| catches/stumpings2 = 1/–

| date = 13 July

| year = 2011

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/10972.html Cricinfo

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Simon Mark Clements (born 29 April 1956) is an English former cricketer. Clements was a left-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Felixstowe, Suffolk.

Clements made his debut in county cricket for Suffolk in the 1974 Minor Counties Championship against Buckinghamshire.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/17/17616/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Simon Clements|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=13 July 2011}} He later made his first-class debut for Oxford University against Gloucestershire. He made 28 further first-class appearances for the university, the last of which came against Cambridge University at Lord's in 1979.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/17/17616/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Simon Clements|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=13 July 2011}} In his 29 first-class matches, he scored 860 runs at an average of 20.47, with a high score of 91.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/17/17616/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Simon Clements|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=13 July 2011}} This score, one of four fifties he made, came against Gloucestershire on debut in 1976.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/35/35963.html|title=Oxford University v Gloucestershire, 1976|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=13 July 2011}} An occasional bowler, he took 3 wickets at a bowling average of 68.33, with best figures of 1/29.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/17/17616/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-class Bowling For Each Team by Simon Clements|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=13 July 2011}}

He still played for Suffolk while studying at Oxford, it was for Suffolk that he made his List A debut for against Sussex in the 1978 Gillette Cup.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/17/17616/List_A_Matches.html|title=List A Matches played by Simon Clements|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=13 July 2011}} He played 4 List A matches for the Combined Universities in the 1979 Benson & Hedges Cup, and after completing his studies he returned to playing on a regular basis for Suffolk. He appeared in 12 further List A matches for the county, the last of which came against Somerset in the 1996 NatWest Trophy, as well as playing a single List A match for the Minor Counties against Sussex in the 1993 Benson & Hedges Cup. In his 13 List A appearances for Suffolk, he scored 169 runs at an average of 13.00, with a high score of 59.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/17/17616/a_Batting_by_Team.html|title=List A Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Simon Clements|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=14 July 2011}} This score, his only fifty in List A cricket, came against Derbyshire in the 1983 NatWest Trophy.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/43/43710.html|title=Suffolk v Derbyshire, 1983 NatWest Trophy|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=14 July 2011}} With the ball, he took 5 wickets at an average of 29.00, with best figures of 3/30.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/17/17616/a_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=List A Bowling For Each Team by Simon Clements|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=14 July 2011}} He retired from representing Suffolk at the end of the 1998 season, having played 175 Minor Counties Championship and 17 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/17/17616/Minor_Counties_Trophy_Matches.html|title=Minor Counties Trophy Matches played by Simon Clements|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=14 July 2011}} He scored 9,219 runs in the Minor Counties Championship,{{cite news|url=http://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/caley_eyes_up_points_not_run_record_1_165186|title=Caley eyes up points – not run record|last=Garnham|first=Nick|date=6 July 2008|work=East Anglian Daily Times|accessdate=14 July 2011}} second only to Philip Caley.