Full name Darron Townley Foy Role Cricket Player Name Darron Foy | Batting style Right-handed | |
Born 8 March 1971 (age 53) ( 1971-03-08 ) Bury, Lancashire, England 2000 Lancashire Cricket Board | ||
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium | ||
Darron Townley 'Biffer' Foy (born 8 March 1971) is a former English cricketer. Foy was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. He was born in Bury, Lancashire.
Foy represented the Lancashire Cricket Board in 2 List A matches against the Netherlands in the 1999 NatWest Trophy and Suffolk in the 2000 NatWest Trophy. In his 2 List A matches, he scored 23 runs at a batting average of 11.50, with a high score of 19. With the ball he took a single wicket at a cost of 63 runs, with best figures of 1/36.
Whilst Townley did not reach the heights in the professional game his potential promised, he has gone on to become a tremendous asset to many local clubs (more clubs than Tiger Woods comes to mind) in the Bolton leagues. His quick bowling and aggressive nature could strike fear into many an amateur player. This was summed up in the early 90s whilst playing for the 5-finger team Darcy Lever in the BDCA when he won the 'Professional of the Year' for an outstanding season.
The 2000s proved to be an up and down decade for Townley; his increasing age and years of wear and tear has cost him his pace but he now uses the guile and experience that decades of league cricket has brought. He has also battled against his weight but toward the end of the decade had lost a significant amount and returned to league cricket with BDCA team Walshaw CC, winning another league title in his first year back. This feat brought him to the attention of Woodbank CC who offered him a large fee to be their professional for the 2010 season.