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Full name | Kevan David James | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Lambeth, London, England | 18 March 1961|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Left-arm medium-fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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. [1]
He born at Lambeth in 1961 and educated at the Edmonton County School, [2] 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. [3] [4] 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. [5] [6]