David Balcombe
Key facts
Full name: David John Balcombe
Born: December 24, 1984, London
County: Hampshire
Other teams: Durham UCCE, Surrey 2nd XI, Kent
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm medium-fast
Biography
A right-arm seam bowler and useful lower-order batsman, Balcombe spent several seasons waiting in the wings before becoming a regular at Hampshire. His patience finally paid dividends in 2012 as Balcombe found himself leading an inexperienced Hampshire attack, playing every game in the LV= County Championship and taking 64 first-class wickets at 26 - as well as adding useful lower-order runs with an average touching 20. A graduate of Durham UCCE, Balcombe signed for Hampshire in 2006 and made a handful of appearances for Hampshire in 2007 before the departure of Shane Warne, James Bruce...
