Full name Wayne Anthony Dessaur 1995 Derbyshire Name Wayne Dessaur | Bowling style Right arm medium Role Cricket Player 1992-1994 Nottinghamshire | |
Born 4 February 1971 (age 53) ( 1971-02-04 ) Nottingham, England First class debut 19 June 1992 Notts v Northants | ||
Batting style Right-handed batsman | ||
Wayne Anthony Dessaur (born 4 February 1971 in Nottingham) is a former English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and an occasional right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in a three-year first-class cricketing career.
Educated at Loughborough Grammar School.
He first represented Nottinghamshire in the Second XI Championship in 1989, but his Derbyshire debut was one of the most important games of his career, as he hit a century against Oxford University in May 1995. It was surprising, therefore, that it was less than three months before he was to be shown the door, after Derbyshire underperformed in the 1995 County Championship table.
Dessaur, who started his career as an upper-middle order batsman, moved to an opening position within three years, however, with Dean Jones coming to the team in 1996, Dessaur was unable to assert himself within the team.
After finishing at Derbyshire he studied at Nottingham University gaining a degree in physiotherapy. He emigrated to Australia where he has his own physiotherapy practice. He is also involved with South Australia Cricket. In 2008 he and Mary E. Magarey published a review article in the Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy entitled "Diagnostic Accuracy of Clinical Tests for Superior Labral Anterior Posterior Lesions : A Systematic Review".