Tim Scriven

Who is Tim Scriven?

Timothy John Adam Scriven played first-class cricket for Somerset in 1988 and 1989. Primarily a Minor Counties cricketer for Buckinghamshire, he played in List A cricket for Buckinghamshire between 1988 and 1999, and also appeared in one first-class match for a Minor Counties cricket team in 1994. He was born at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

A tall left-arm orthodox spin bowler and right-handed tail-end batsman, Scriven had played second eleven cricket for Northamptonshire and Minor Counties cricket for Buckinghamshire before arriving at Somerset in 1988. But in two seasons he was given only three first eleven matches and he did not take more than two wickets in an innings. Five years after leaving Somerset, he played a single first-class match for the Minor Counties team against the 1994 South Africans and took three wickets for 43 runs in the tourists' first innings, the best figures of his first-class career. In nine List A matches for Buckinghamshire in the NatWest Trophy between 1988 and 1999, his best bowling was three for 61 in 12 overs in the match against Surrey in 1998. His batting was mostly negligible, but in his final List A match, against Warwickshire in 1999, he scored 33, his only score of more than 10 in 11 innings in major cricket.