John Lever MBE (born John Kenneth Lever, 24 February 1949, Stepney, London) is an English former cricketer, who played in twenty one Tests and twenty two ODIs for England from 1976 to 1986. Lever was a left-arm fast-medium bowler, who predominantly swung the ball into the right-handed batsmen, to try to outwit them.
Cricket correspondent, Colin Bateman, remarked, "for 23 years he plied his trade with Essex, becoming the finest left-arm pace bowler in the country. Tough, astute, and entertaining in the dressing room, Lever was, as the title of his autobiography suggests, A Cricketer's Cricketer".
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