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Primarily a limited-overs batsman, Laurie John Evans had dreams of becoming a scrumhalf and may have been posing alongside England's well-known Rugby player and Evans' classmate Danny Cipriani had he not switched his interest to cricket. A series of shoulder injuries put paid to Evans Rugby dreams, but that didn't stop from holding a bat and whacking the ball cleanly. Beginning his career as a seamer who could bat, Evans was nurtured by Graeme Fowler at Durham University who reminded Evans of his strengths and later turned him into a flamboyant batsman at the academy. He scored an impressive hundred for Durham MCCU in his second match for them and displayed sparks of clean hitting throughout his stay. Later, he moved to Surrey seeking better opportunities, but the move didn't turn out as anticipated with competition for places getting incredibly tough. After Surrey released him in 2010, Evans joined Warwickshire immediately and became a legend of sorts with the second elevens where he knocked over twenty hundreds after playing nearly 100 games during the period of 2010-13. That purple patch enabled an opportunity for Evans to represent the first elevens at Warwickshire, but he was soon found wanting against the short ball and eventually lost his Championship side place in 2014.
