Duffell was born in Hanover, Germany to Lieutenant-General Sir Peter Duffell and his wife Ann Murray, daughter of Colonel Basil Bethune Neville Woodd, of a landed gentry family of Shynewood, Shropshire.
[1][2][3] He was educated at Radley College in Oxfordshire, then at Oxford Brookes University.
He was part of the Middlesex County Cricket Club academy, representing the club at 2nd XI level and played for both Oxford University Centre of Cricketing Excellence and MCC Universities.
While studying for a degree in Real Estate and Business management at Oxford Brookes University, Duffell made his first-class debut when Middlesex played against Oxford MCCU in 2007. https://cricketarchive.com/Middlesex/Players/89/89137/89137.html http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/290407.html
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