Full Name

Darryl Bridgeman

Born

November 16, 1969, Auckland, New Zealand

Age

54y 133d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Fast medium

Darryl Bridgeman plays his club cricket with Atherton in the Cairns competition. He returns to representative cricket after an absence of some years for in the season of 1990-91 he represented Queensland Country Colts and then Queensland Colts in the Sydney Gregory Cup match against New South Wales Colts. In that season he was also a member of the Queensland Country team for the National Championships played in Townsville, in three matches batting once for four runs and capturing four wickets for 92. In 1996-97 he appeared for Cairns Invitation XI against the visiting New Zealand team. He was educated at a number of primary schools throughout Queensland and at Malanda High School. On leaving school he worked on a farm but more recently completed a carpentry apprenticeship and now operates his own business in the Atherton area. Bridgeman's availability to play cricket was somewhat restricted in his years as an apprentice and also he spent a couple of years working on Thursday Island. (Warwick Torrens, December 1999)