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Full name | Alan Keith Colin Jones | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Solihull, Warwickshire, England | 20 April 1951|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1971–1973 | Oxford University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1969–1973 | Warwickshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,13 July 2012 |
Alan Keith Colin Jones (born 20 April 1951) is an English former cricketer. Jones was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Solihull,Warwickshire,and was educated at Solihull School and St Edmund Hall,Oxford.
Keith Jones made his first-class debut for Warwickshire against Scotland at Edgbaston in 1969. [1] His next first-class appearance came during his university studies for Oxford University against Warwickshire. He made 28 further first-class appearances for the university,the last of which came in The University Match of 1973 against Cambridge University at Lord's. [1] In his 29 first-class appearances for the university,Jones scored 1,102 runs at an average of 21.19,with a highest score of 111 against Nottinghamshire in 1971. [2] [3] He also made two first-class appearances for a combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities team,against the touring Australians in 1972 and the touring New Zealanders in 1973. [1] It was for Oxford University that he also made his List A debut for in the 1973 Benson &Hedges Cup against Leicestershire. He made three further appearances in that season's competition,against Warwickshire,Northamptonshire and Worcestershire. [4] He scored a total of 153 runs in these matches,at an average of 38.25 and with a high score of 82, [5] which came against Northamptonshire. [6]
Following the end of his studies in 1973,Jones returned to Warwickshire,where he played a half a dozen matches for the county at the end of the 1973 season. He made three first-class appearances in the County Championship against Kent,Middlesex and Gloucestershire, [1] as well as making three List A appearances in the John Player League against Surrey,Worcestershire and Gloucestershire. [4]
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