Simon Kerrigan

Full Name	Simon Kerrigan
Nickname	Keggsy
DoB	10th May 1989
Height	5' 9
Bats/Bowls	Left Hand/Slow left-arm
Shirt Number	10
Lancashire	Lancs Academy 2008. Debut 2010
Tests	0
ODI	0

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Simon Kerrigan is yet to make his Lancashire first team debut having signed his maiden professional contract with the county ahead of the 2009 season.

The 20 year-old left-arm spinner has had plenty of success with both the county’s Second team and the local club sides he has played for, including Fulwood and Broughton and Ormskirk.

Standing at only 5ft 9inches tall, it didn’t take long for Keggsy, as he known around Old Trafford, to decide upon a change from the medium pace bowling that had served him reasonably well through the majority of his teens.

"I was doing okay bowling medium pace for Fulwood and Broughton Second team, but I think you have to be tall to be a really good quickie,” he told the Lancashire Evening Post shortly after signing a two-year pro deal at Old Trafford.

“My seam bowling wasn't really getting me that many wickets, so that kind of made my mind up for me.”

Kerrigan is one of two players on Lancashire’s staff who hail from Preston – the other being a certain Andrew Flintoff.

The former would love to follow the latter into international cricket one-day, and has been tipped for the top level by ex-Red Rose batsman Mal Loye, who captained Kerrigan in Lancashire’s Second team.

The twirler, who has an ideal role model at Old Trafford in Gary Keedy, travelled to the UAE as one of three left-arm spinners – Stephen Parry the other – on Lancashire’s pre-season tour in March of 2009.

He spent his second summer at Liverpool Competition side Ormskirk and finished as the leading wicket-taker in Lancashire’s Second XI Trophy campaign.

Kerrigan, who is a product of Lancashire’s 2008 Academy intake, has one year left on his first professional contract, but don’t bet against him being around Old Trafford for much, much longer.

He is preparing for the 2010 English summer by spending his winter in Australian grade cricket.

Graham Hardcastle
(c) Lancashire CCC Ltd
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