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| Full name | Richard Jaynes Devereux | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 December 1938 Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1963 | Worcestershire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,17 November 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Richard Jaynes Devereux (born 26 December 1938) is a former English cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket for Worcestershire in 1963.
Devereux had played for the Worcestershire Second XI since 1959,but his first-class debut had to wait until May 1963,when he was selected to face Middlesex at Lord's. He top-scored with 22 not out from number eight in Worcestershire's painful first-innings progress to 79 all out in 55.4 overs,then took 0/49 with the ball;the game was drawn. [1]
He stayed in the side until the middle of June,playing along the way in his only List A game,a Gillette Cup quarter-final in which he made an important 30 from number nine, [2] and making his only first-class half-century,55* against Cambridge University;he also took his best innings figures of 3/44 in that game. [3] but then a paucity of wickets forced him back to the seconds. There,he still found it hard at first to take wickets,though he did score a couple of fifties.
However,in July Devereux took ten wickets in the match against Kent II, [4] and seven more wickets in the next match,against Essex II,propelled him back into the first team before the month was out. Not for long,however:once more he struggled to take wickets,and after he had taken none at all in three successive games against Essex,Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire he was back in the Second XI. [5] This time there would be no return,and Devereux never again played senior cricket.