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Full name | James Matthew Golding | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Canterbury, Kent | 19 July 1977|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium-fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1998–2000 | Kent Cricket Board | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1999–2002 | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2005–2009 | Wiltshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FC debut | 15 July 1999 Kent v New Zealanders | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last FC | 19 July 2002 Kent v Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LA debut | 4 May 1999 Kent Cricket Board v Denmark | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last LA | 3 May 2005 Wiltshire v Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricInfo,11 October 2017 |
James Matthew Golding (born 19 July 1977) is a former English professional cricketer. He was born at Canterbury in Kent and played for Kent County Cricket Club,Kent Cricket Board and Wiltshire County Cricket Club between 1998 and 2009. [1]
Golding made his debut for Kent's Second XI in 1995 before making his First-class cricket debut for the county in 1999 against the touring New Zealanders. He signed as a professional member of Kent's playing staff at the end of the 1999 season. [2] [3] He played List A cricket for Kent Cricket Board in the 1999 NatWest Trophy before going on to play 36 times for the Kent List A side between 2000 and 2002,including a match against the touring Indian side in 2002 when he recorded his best List A bowling figures of 4/42,including bowling Sachin Tendulkar. [4]
He made his County Championship debut for Kent in 2001 against Somerset at Taunton,taking three wickets in Somerset's first innings. [5] Golding played 11 first-class matches for Kent before being released at the end of the 2002 season. [6] [7] After leaving Kent,Golding played Minor Counties cricket for Wiltshire between 2005 and 2009 as well as making one List A appearance for the county in the 2005 Cheltenham &Gloucester Trophy. [8]
Golding became a P.E. teacher after leaving the professional game. He worked at Abbeyfield School in Chippenham,Wiltshire and,as of October 2017,is a Housemaster and Master in charge of cricket at Abingdon School in Oxfordshire. [9]
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