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Paul Downton is a former English cricketer who played for Kent and England. He was born on 4 April 1957 in Farnborough, Orpington, England. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. Downton made his first-class debut for Kent in 1976 and went on to play for the county until his retirement in 1993. He also represented England in two Test matches and four One Day Internationals. Downton scored over 10,000 first-class runs and took over 500 wickets in his career. He was a member of the Kent team that won the County Championship in 1978 and 1979. Downton is currently the managing director of the Professional Cricketers' Association. He is also a member of the MCC World Cricket Committee.

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Age 67 years old
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Born 4 April 1957
Birthday 4 April
Birthplace Farnborough, London
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2018

Kent announced his appointment as Director of Cricket on 18 January 2018.

2013

On 16 October 2013, Downton was appointed to the position of Managing Director of the England and Wales Cricket Board with effect from 1 February 2014. He replaced Hugh Morris who resigned to become chief executive and managing director of Glamorgan County Cricket Club. He left the role on 8 April 2015.

1991

Downton's cricket career ended in 1991 when he failed to recover from a freak eye injury. A bail lodged in his eye when he was standing up to the stumps during a Sunday League match at Basingstoke in 1990.

1981

Downton tasted Test cricket for the first time in the West Indies that winter. He was dropped after the first Test against Australia in the summer of 1981 and had to wait until the summer of 1984 for further such honours, when he was picked at home to bolster England's batting options against the West Indies. It began an uninterrupted twenty-three match run in the national team.

1980

A trustworthy, affable and resourceful team member, Downton played a starring role in Middlesex's successes in the 1980s. The cricket journalist and Downton's former Middlesex teammate Simon Hughes has described Downton as "gracious, encouraging, unfailingly polite, a diplomat. The kind of chap ... who would offer the bailiffs a glass of sherry if they turned up unannounced." Hughes argues that Downton's calm personality, even when dealing with a difficult colleague, was a significant factor in Downton's success as a player and stand-in captain at Middlesex while Brearley was absent playing for England.

1977

He is a former English professional cricketer who played in 30 Test matches and 28 One Day Internationals for the England cricket team between 1977 and 1989. He was a wicket-keeper who played for Kent County Cricket Club from 1977 to 1979 and for Middlesex between 1980 and 1991.

His father, George, had played briefly for Kent in the post-war period and Downton's early county cricket career was with the same county. Kent shared the 1977 County Championship and won the completion outright in 1978 but Downton became frustrated deputising for Alan Knott in the 1979 season and moved to Middlesex in 1980.

1957

Paul Rupert Downton (born 4 April 1957) is the current Director of Cricket at Kent County Cricket Club. He had previously been the managing director of the England and Wales Cricket Board between February 2014 and April 2015.

Downton was born at Farnborough in metropolitan Kent in 1957. He attended Sevenoaks Prep School, Sevenoaks School and the University of Exeter. He obtained a law degree, a coaching certificate and earned international honours at youth level in both cricket and rugby union.