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About Simon Ferguson
- Simon Alexander Ross Ferguson (born 13 May 1961) played List A cricket for Suffolk in 1984 and first-class cricket for Somerset in 1985.
- He was born in Lagos, Nigeria. Ferguson was an opening or middle order right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler.
- He attended Framlingham College in Suffolk, where he represented the school 1st XI for four years, breaking all school batting records.
- He captained Lancaster University for two years and led them to two indoor Universities Athletic Union Titles.
- In 1983 after successfully leading English Roses to the Universities Championship, he then Captained Great Britain and Ireland Universities against an Essex side captained by former England captain Mike Denness.
- He played for Essex for two seasons, topping the second eleven batting averages.
- He played Minor Counties cricket for Suffolk in 1983 and 1984, which led to his solitary List A appearance in the first-round NatWest Trophy match against Worcestershire at New Road, Worcester in 1984, when he made 12 and did not bowl.
- In 1985, he spent two seasons with Somerset, but played almost exclusively for the second eleven in the Minor Counties Championship and the Second Eleven Championship where he topped the batting averages.
- His one first-eleven game came late in a season of turmoil for Somerset, who unexpectedly finished bottom of the County Championship, and he scored just eight in a single innings against Middlesex at Weston-super-Mare.
- He did not return to Somerset in 1986. Whilst playing for Somerset County Cricket Club he captained Staplegrove Cricket Club, where he broke the then existing league records for batting.
- In one 45 over League game he scored 207.
- He then proceeded to represent Hampstead CC where he scored 211 in a club game before lunch and Richmond CC in the Middlesex League, where he also captained the Middlesex League and Middlesex Cricket Union.
- He represented the England Amateur XI on several occasions.
- Whilst representing Constantia Cricket Club in South Africa he was a member of the side that won the Supersport National Club Championships at Centurion in defeating Stellenbosch University in the final.
- He reached the unusual record of having scored one hundred hundreds in all cricket. Playing later in club cricket in London, he recommended a New Zealand-born fast bowler Andy Caddick to Somerset's coach, Peter Robinson.
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