Andy Hayhurst

Andy Hayhurst

Personal information
Full name	Andrew Neil Hayhurst
Born	23 November 1962 Manchester, England
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm Medium
Role	All-rounder
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1997	Derbyshire
1990–1996	Somerset
1983–1989	Lancashire
First-class debut	14 September 1985 Lancashire v Leicestershire
Last First-class	23 April 1997 Derbyshire v Kent
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A Matches 166 182 Runs scored 7825 3617 Batting average 33.87 29.40 100s/50s 14/40 0/21 Top score 172* 95 Balls bowled 8961 5013 Wickets 110 136 Bowling average 45.37 29.53 5 wickets in innings 0 1 10 wickets in match 0 n/a Best bowling 4/27 5/60 Catches/stumpings 56/– 24/–
Source: Cricinfo, 21 August 2009

Andrew Neil Hayhurst (born 23 November 1962) is a former English cricketer, and convicted fraudster.^[1] During his 12-year professional playing career, he was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler.

Playing career

Hayhurst started his career playing as a youth for Worsley Cricket Club, before signing professional forms with Lancashire.

During a twelve-year first-class career, Hayhurst played for Lancashire, Somerset and Derbyshire. An effective all-rounder, he was unable to provide the necessary push to put him up for possible international candidacy. With an average nearing 58 in 1990, in his first season for Somerset, he did not make such figures for the team until 1994, when he became captain of the team for the following three years.

Hayhurst left Somerset in 1996, and in the same year he was to become the assistant coach of Derbyshire. However, he was asked to play early in that season but got injured in his first match for the team. In the same year, Hayhurst became first-team coach due to the departures of Dean Jones and Les Stillman. He left Derbyshire after a disagreement with captain, Dominic Cork, who he had appointed.^[2][3]

Post-playing career

In February 2002 Hayhurst returned to Lancashire as Secretary of the Lancashire Cricket Board,^[4] After eight successful years at the helm of this organisation, he was appointed to the position of Director.

Conviction for fraud

After retirement, as well as his duties for LCB, he played part-time for Worsley CC. There he used the club's headed paper to submit fake invoices to LCB for coaching. He then took LCB's cheques to the WCC treasurer, saying the money was intended for WCC and the rest was due to be paid to other local clubs. After the WCC treasurer handed back to Hayhurst a blank cheque, he completed the cheque and banked it to his own personal account.^[1]

At Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court in June 2015, Hayhurst admitted 20 such incidents between August 2006 and July 2013. This netted him £107,548 which he used to pay for lavish meals and family holidays. Hayhurst pleaded guilty to fraud, theft, obtaining property by deception, false accounting and concealing criminal property. On 12 June 2015 he was jailed for two years.^[1][5]

References

1. "Ex-cricketer Andy Hayhurst jailed for £100k fraud". BBC News. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
2. Brownett bids to keep Cork, Cricinfo, Retrieved 24 April 2009
3. Cork has his way, Cricinfo, Retrieved 24 April 2009
4. Sports Round-up, Telegraph, Retrieved 24 April 2009
5. Message from LCB Director, Lancashire Cricket Board, Retrieved 24 April 2009

External links

• Andy Hayhurst at Cricket Archive