About Duncan Spencer
Duncan Spencer (born 5 April 1972) is an English former cricketer. == Career == Born in Nelson, Lancashire, the family moved to Perth in Western Australia when he was five years old and Spencer played Western Australian grade cricket. He played as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler. After playing aged group cricket for Western Australia in 1989, Spencer's first high-profile cricket appearances came in two one-day matches for Western Australia against a touring England A team in March 1994. Spencer's List A and first-class cricket debuts came for Kent County Cricket Club in 1993. He made five List A and two first-class appearances for the team during the season before signing for Western Australia in time for the 1994–95 Sheffield Shield. After playing in the majority of the team's matches during the Shield season, in 1994 he returned to Kent, playing a further four County Championship matches and in the county's List A team. Spencer dropped out of the county game with back trouble, but not before Sir Vivian Richards rated Spencer as the fastest bowler he had ever faced. After six years out of the Western Australian team, he returned to play six one-day matches for WA in the 2000/01 season and after the last of these matches, he returned a positive drug test for the anabolic steroid performance-enhancing drug nandrolone. He was found guilty and suspended from all competitive cricket for 18 months.
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