{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}} {{Use British English|date=February 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Ian Chivers | image = | country = England | fullname = Ian James Chivers | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|11|5|df=yes}} | birth_place = Southampton, Hampshire, England | heightft = | heightinch = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm off break | club1 = Hampshire | year1 = {{nowrap|1985–1987}} | clubnumber1 = | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 2 | runs1 = 20 | bat avg1 = – | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 20* | deliveries1 = 150 | wickets1 = 2 | bowl avg1 = 38.00 | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = 1/4 | catches/stumpings1 = –/– | date = 12 December | year = 2009 | source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/10725.html Cricinfo }}
'''Ian James Chivers''' (born 5 November 1964) is an English former first-class cricketer.
Chivers was born in November 1964 at Southampton. A club cricketer for Old Tauntonians,<ref name="HCCC">{{cite web|url=https://hampshirecrickethistory.wordpress.com/2017/11/13/a-z-c6/|title=A–Z (C6)|website=www.hampshirecrickethistory.wordpress.com|access-date=14 June 2024}}</ref> Chivers was an off break bowler who was engaged by Hampshire at a time when they possessed the spin bowling options of Nigel Cowley and Rajesh Maru, which limited his appearances to mostly Second XI matches.<ref name="HCCC"/> He made two appearances in first-class cricket for Hampshire, against Oxford University at Oxford in 1985, and against Glamorgan at Swansea in the 1987 County Championship;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6534/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Ian Chivers|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=14 June 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He took two wickets in these matches.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6534/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Ian Chivers|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=14 June 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He later played club cricket for Calmore Sports and Winchester Krakatoa Simmarians.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://i.imgci.com/link_to_database/NATIONAL/ENG/LEAGUES/SPCL/CLUB_DIRECTORY/DIVISION_ONE/CALMORE.html|title=Southern Premier League|work=ESPNcricinfo|year=2002|access-date=14 June 2024}}</ref><ref name="HCCC"/>
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==External links== *{{cricinfo|id=10725}}
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