{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | image = | country = England | fullname = Graham Alan Pointer | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|5|2|df=yes}} | birth_place = Lewisham, Kent, England | heightft = | heightinch = | nickname = | family = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Left-arm medium-fast | role = | club1 = Cambridge University | year1 = 1987–1990 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 16 | runs1 = 234 | bat avg1 = 11.70 | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 33 | deliveries1 = 2,267 | wickets1 = 17 | bowl avg1 = 76.35 | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = 3/35 | catches/stumpings1 = 1/– | date = 11 August | year = 2020 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/18979.html Cricinfo }}
'''Graham Alan Pointer''' (born 2 May 1967) is an English former first-class cricketer.
Pointer was born at Lewisham in May 1967. He was educated at St Dunstan's College, before going up to St John's College, Cambridge.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32099/32099.html |title=Player profile: Graham Pointer |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-08-11 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> While studying at Cambridge, he played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, making his debut against Essex in 1987. He played first-class cricket for Cambridge until 1990, making fifteen appearances.<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32099/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Graham Pointer |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-08-11 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Playing primarily as a left-arm medium-fast bowler, he took 17 wickets in his fifteen matches for Cambridge, at an average of 74.88 and with best figures of 3 for 31.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32099/f_Bowling_by_Team.html |title=First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Graham Pointer |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-08-11 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> As a tailend batsman, he scored 231 runs at a batting average of 12.15 and with a high score of 33.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32099/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Graham Pointer |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-08-11 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> In addition to playing first-class cricket for Cambridge, Pointer also made a single appearance for a combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities cricket team against the touring Pakistanis at Oxford in 1987.<ref name="FCM"/>
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