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| Full name | Daryl Keith Henry Mitchell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 November 1983 Badsey, Worcestershire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2021 | Worcestershire (squad no. 27) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Mountaineers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FC debut | 8 May 2005 Worcestershire v Loughborough UCCE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last FC | 21 September 2021 Worcestershire v Leicestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LA debut | 12 June 2005 Worcestershire v Bangladeshis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last LA | 10 May 2019 Worcestershire v Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 24 September 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Daryl Keith Henry Mitchell (born 25 November 1983) is an English former first-class cricketer. Primarily a right-handed batsman who often opened the innings, Mitchell also bowled right-arm medium pace. He played for Worcestershire. He was appointed vice-captain for the 2010 season, and made captain when Vikram Solanki resigned in mid-August.
After having appeared fairly regularly in the Worcestershire second team since 2002, Mitchell made his first-class debut for the county in May 2005 against Loughborough UCCE at Kidderminster. He made only five and 12 as Worcestershire slumped to an eight-wicket defeat, but after a few weeks out of the side Mitchell returned to the first team, and in mid-June he scored 63 against Leicestershire.
Mitchell's first full season was in the Twenty20 Cup saw a failure with the bat – an aggregate of just nine runs in four innings – balanced by five wickets in 13 overs with the ball, including 2–26 against Somerset.
After a successful winter playing in Australia, Mitchell began the 2006 season as a first choice opener in the absence of overseas player Phil Jaques and scored his first half-century of the season against Somerset.
Mitchell endured a tricky 2009 season, struggling to make the impression at the top of the order he did the season before with Stephen Moore. However, Mitchell produced a strong batting performance in the penultimate Championship game of the season against Somerset at Taunton. He struck 298, his maiden first-class double century and the fifth highest individual score by a Worcestershire batsman, which included 54 boundaries and one six. He also became the first cricketer in history to be dismissed for that score.[1]
During an end-of-season 20-over benefit match, Mitchell further demonstrated his versatility by keeping wicket, taking two stumpings.[2]
Mitchell was appointed vice-captain to Vikram Solanki for the start of the season, replacing the departed Gareth Batty.[3] He struck a rich vein of form that season, scoring four centuries and 1,000 runs by mid-August. Three of his centuries came in consecutive innings, two against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham, where he led Worcestershire to an improbable victory having been 202 behind on first innings,[4] and another, a fine 165, against Glamorgan.[5] Following defeat in this last match, Solanki resigned as captain, and Mitchell was immediately appointed his successor.[6]
He announced his intention to retire at the end of the 2021 season.[7]
Updated 28 September 2017
| Batting | Bowling | |||||||
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| Score | Fixture | Venue | Season | Score | Fixture | Venue | Season | |
| FC | 298 | Worcestershire v Somerset | Taunton | 2009 | 4–49 | Worcestershire v Yorkshire | Headingley | 2009 |
| LA | 107 | Worcestershire v Sussex | Hove | 2013 | 4–19 | Worcestershire v Northamptonshire | Milton Keynes | 2014 |
| T20 | 68* | Worcestershire v Derbyshire | Derby | 2014 | 5-28 | Worcestershire v Northamptonshire | Northampton | 2014 |
Mitchell was elected as the representative for Worcestershire on the Professional Cricketers' Association committee in 2009. He became the PCA chairman in February 2017, and was elected for a final two-year term in February 2019, having to guide the Association through the problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Following his retirement at the end of the 2021 cricket season, Mitchell switched sports to football and signed for Hellenic Football League side Moreton Rangers.[8] [9]