Stuart Simmonds
Stuart Simmonds is an English cricketer. Simmonds is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium-fast. He was born at Birmingham.
Simmonds represented the Sussex Cricket Board in a single List A match against Hertfordshire in the 1999 NatWest Trophy. In his only List A match, he scored an unbeaten 14 runs, while taking a 2 wickets at a bowling average of 25.00, with figures of 2/50.Autobiography
Simmonds' autobiography "Watching With My Heroes", with a foreword by Derek Pringle was published in October 2017 with a book launch at The Folly in London on 31 October 2017 attended by both Derek Pringle and David Gower; cited by Simmonds in the book as the reason he became a Cricketer.
Stuart has recently released an updated edition of his autobiography with additional chapters and with a foreword by David Bowen from Sussex Cricket.
Stuart is also currently a Vice President of the Sussex Cricket Foundation, the charity arm of Sussex Cricket.Children's Fiction
In 2019 Simmonds published the first six, of a currently planned seven books in the "Hannah the Spanner" series, with illustrations by .
Released on 7 November 2019 together with a book launch in Foyles, London on 27 November 2019:
An animated trailer narrated by Dawn French has also been
