Kevan James

Kevan David James (born 18 March 1961, Lambeth, London) is educated at the Edmonton County School,[1] in the London Borough of Enfield.

Kevan James
Personal information
Full nameKevan David James
Born (1961-03-18) 18 March 1961
Lambeth, London, England
NicknameJamo, the other bloke
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingLeft-arm medium-fast
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
19851999Hampshire
1982/831984/85Wellington
19801984Middlesex
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 225 254
Runs scored 8,526 2,459
Batting average 30.45 19.83
100s/50s 10/42 /7
Top score 162 66
Balls bowled 24,687 10,958
Wickets 395 247
Bowling average 31.91 31.28
5 wickets in innings 11 2
10 wickets in match 1
Best bowling 8/49 6/35
Catches/stumpings 78/ 69/
Source: Cricinfo, 17 May 2011

James is an English first-class cricketer for 19 years. He spent most of his career with Hampshire whom he won the NatWest Trophy and Benson & Hedges Cup with in the early 1990s.

A middle-order batsman and left-arm seam bowler, he toured Australia and the West Indies with Young England before forging a successful career with Hampshire. He also played some first-class cricket for Wellington in New Zealand. James is perhaps best known for a game against the Indians in 1996 when he took a record equaling four wickets in four balls, and followed it up with a hundred later in the match. These Indian wickets included Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid. The Cricinfo report from the match claimed that no-one, in the history of cricket, had taken four wickets in four balls and scored a hundred in the same game.[2][3] The second player to have accomplished a 4-in-4 and a century was Kelly Smuts, for Eastern Province (EP) against Boland at Paarl in 2015–16. Smuts had a magical game, scoring the only individual century of the game (108) in the only EP innings of 442, and capturing 7 for 36 and 6 for 35.

His brother, Martin, played List A cricket for Hertfordshire.

Since at least 2003, Kevan has been reported on Hampshire for BBC Radio Solent and is currently the lead Hampshire commentator for the BBC's ball-by-ball radio coverage of county cricket.[4][5]

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