Iain Anderson

Iain Anderson (born April 24, 1960) was an England cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. He played for Derbyshire County Cricket Club and Boland Cricket during a nine-year first-class cricketing career.

A Derby native, Anderson accrued three Youth Test match appearances between 1978 and 1979, as an opening batsman, and one Youth ODI appearance, against Australian cricket team in the winter of 1979.

Anderson's first-class cricketing career started in 1978, finishing not-out in his first innings of a drawn match against Northamptonshire County Cricket Club and taking one wicket in Northamptonshire's innings. He played consistently through to the beginning of the 1980s, at which point he featured in a match against a team of touring Australian cricket team, taking four wickets in a drawn game in June 1981.

Anderson played well into the 1983 season before moving in the Autumn of 1983 to South Africa to play for Boland to play in the Castle Bowl. He found himself back in England at the end of the Castle Bowl tournament, playing in the 1984 County Championship, where he continued for the next three years.

Anderson played as an opening batsman throughout his career, both in international and domestic cricket in both England and South Africa. He retired at the end of the 1987 season, having served the Derbyshire team for eight years.