James Maxwell Michael Averis (born 28 May 1974[1] Bristol, England) is a retired English cricket player who played for the cricket teams of Oxford University and Gloucestershire. He also played professional rugby for Harlequins and Bristol. His nickname when playing was "Fish." He is five feet eleven inches tall.
He attended Bristol Cathedral School and afterwards Oxford University on a Major Stanley's scholarship where he won blues at rugby and cricket in the same academic year.
James Averis is now a geography teacher at Clifton College Prep School in Bristol.[2]