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| Full name | Kevan David James | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1961-03-18) 18 March 1961 (age 63) Lambeth, London, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-arm medium-fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1985–1999 | Hampshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1982/83–1984/85 | Wellington | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1980–1984 | Middlesex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricinfo, 17 May 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kevan David James (born 18 March 1961) is an English former first-class cricketer who spent most of his career with Hampshire whom he won the NatWest Trophy and Benson & Hedges Cup with in the early 1990s.
He born at Lambeth in 1961 and educated at the Edmonton County School, in the London Borough of Enfield.
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. 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.
His brother, Martin, played List A cricket for Hertfordshire.
Since at least 2003, James has been reporting 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. He's also well known for his big deep booming voice.
References
- "Kevan James interview: Remembering an amazing hat-trick - The Cricketer". www.thecricketer.com.
- Edmonton County School pupils Retrieved 18 July 2009
- "Hampshire v Indians at Southampton, 29 Jun-1 Jul 1996". static.espncricinfo.com.
- "Hampshire v Indians, Match Report". static.espncricinfo.com.
- "The Cricketer".
- "BBC - Radio Solent - Kevan James". www.bbc.co.uk.
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