Fulton, a left-handed batter,[2] played in 10 first-class matches in 1997, scoring 451 runs at an average of 23.73.[3] He scored four half centuries,[3] against Durham,[4][2]Sussex (where he scored 50 and 46),[5]Nottinghamshire[6] and in the Varsity Match against Cambridge University, where he scored 78 in the first innings, with a stand of 103 between him and captain Mark Wagh.[7][8]
He was appointed captain in 1998,[9] playing in all the team's eight first-class matches, scoring 180 runs at an average of 16.36,[10] with his highest score (and only half-century) 78 against Yorkshire.[11]
He only played in three first-class matches in 1999, the final year of first-class cricket against Counties by Oxford University, scoring 48 runs at an average of 9.6, with a highest score of 30.[12]
After finishing university, Fulton joined the British Army.[13] He represented them at cricket including captaining the side in their centenary match against the Royal Navy at Lord's in August 2008, a contest in which he top-scored with 115.[14]