Personal information | ||||
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Full name | Kevan David James | |||
Born | 18 March 1961 Lambeth, London, England |
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Batting style | Left-handed | |||
Bowling style | Left-arm medium-fast | |||
Domestic team information | ||||
Years | Team | |||
1985–1999 | Hampshire | |||
1982/83–1984/85 | Wellington | |||
1980–1984 | Middlesex | |||
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 |
Kevan David James (born 18 March 1961, Lambeth, London) was educated at the Edmonton County School,[1] in the London Borough of Enfield.
James was 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]
His brother, Martin, played List A cricket for Hertfordshire.