Tim Tweats

Timothy Andrew Tweats (born 18 April 1974) is a former English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Derbyshire between 1992 and 1999, and for Staffordshire in 2000.

Tim Tweats

Personal information
Full name	Timothy Andrew Tweats
Born	(1974-04-18) 18 April 1974 (age 51) Stoke-on-Trent, England
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium pace
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1992–1999	Derbyshire
1992, 2000	Staffordshire
Career statistics
Competition FC LA Matches 33 35 Runs scored 1405 315 Batting average 24.64 13.69 100s/50s 2/4 0/0 Top score 189 42* Balls bowled 298 24 Wickets 4 0 Bowling average 59.25 - 5 wickets in innings 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 0 Best bowling 1/23 0/27 Catches/stumpings 29/- 10/-
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As a youth, Tweats was a promising footballer, spending time in Port Vale's youth system.^[1][2]

He made his debut for Derbyshire in a loss against Glamorgan, though, playing as a lower-middle order batsman, he barely disgraced himself, being caught at 24.

He did not play first-class cricket again until the 1995 season, spending all of 1993 and a significant portion of 1994 in the Second XI. A slow starter upon his return, he excelled in the 1997 season, where he hit his debut first-class century, before making a career-best score of 189, and finishing high in the batting averages for the season. During his high-scoring innings, Kim Barnett partnered him to a county record second-wicket stand of 417, a record which stands to this day.^[3]

Tweats retired from First-class cricket at the end of the 1999 season to focus on higher education.^[4][5]

In 2000 Tweats played for Staffordshire.