Chief Executive, London County Cricket Club
Neil Burns played first-class cricket for Essex, Somerset, Leicestershire & Western Province in a 20-year career from 1983. This included a stint as Player/Coach & Director of Cricket for Bucks.
He holds 2 world-records for wicket-keeping:
Most stumpings in a 1-day innings (4 Somerset v Kent 1991)
Highest aggregate of runs in first-class match without conceding a bye (Surrey v Leics 2002)
He also holds the Leicestershire wicket-keeping record for most dismissals in a first-class innings:
(7 Leics v Somerset 2001)
He has played and coached all round the world and runs the NBC Cricket Academy in Cape Town.
Since his retirement from first-class cricket in 2002, he has forged a successful sports management and coaching consultancy. As the Chief Executive of London County Cricket Club, his passion for Cricket and its future provides the foundation to enable him to help develop people to grace the game.
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