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university match and made his highest first-class score, an undefeated 46, in the first innings of the game, enabling Oxford to recover from a middle-order collapse. At the end of the university cricket season, Gurr was elected secretary – one of two honorary posts within the Oxford cricket club, the other being captain – for the 1978 season, but he then failed his
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book in 1980, Gurr wrote: "I will probably spend the 1980 season playing part-time, acting as stand-by. I hope to develop my career in the life assurance market while trying to keep in touch with the first-class game. If all goes well, I hope to try and spend more time in cricket in two or three
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Gurr began the 1977 season with five
Warwickshire wickets for 42 runs in the first Oxford match. But the university cricket season was badly affected by wet weather and Gurr also went through what Wisden termed a "bad patch" in which his bowling lacked control. But he won a second blue in the
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