Steven Dean
Steven John Dean (born 16 November 1960) is a former English cricketer. Dean was a right-handed batsman. He was born in Cosford, Shropshire. Dean made his debut for Staffordshire against Lincolnshire in the 1982 Minor Counties Championship. Dean played Minor counties cricket for Staffordshire from 1982 to 2003, which included 161 Minor Counties Championship appearances and 47 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. It was for Staffordshire that he made his debut in List A cricket for, against Glamorgan in the 1986 NatWest Trophy. Over the next 17 years, Dean would go on to make a further 16 limited-overs appearances for Staffordshire, in which he scored 302 runs at an average of 14.38. His highest score of 72 came for Staffordshire against Warwickshire in the 1987 NatWest Trophy. For a Minor counties cricketer, Dean would go on to make an unusually high number of List A appearances for a cricketer not attached to a first-class county. Playing for Staffordshire allowed Dean to represent the Minor Counties cricket team, who he made his limited-overs debut for in the 1992 Benson & Hedges Cup against Middlesex, with Dean playing an additional 26 List A matches for the team, with his final match coming in