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Full name | Wayne Robert James | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia | 27 August 1965|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batsman, Wicket-keeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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National side |
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Test debut(cap 22) | 16–21 December 1993 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 26–31 October 1994 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut(cap 21) | 23 February 1992 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 3 September 1996 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1992/93–1997/98 | Matabeleland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNcricinfo,8 February 2019 |
Wayne Robert James (born 27 August 1965) is a former cricketer who played as a wicket-keeper batsman for Zimbabwe. Between 2010 and 2014,James was also part of the selection panel for the national team. [1] [2]
His highest first-class score of 215 was made for Matabeleland in the 1995–96 Logan Cup. In the final of the competition,he equaled the record of most dismissals in an innings by a wicket-keeper,with nine. [3] By taking four catches in the second innings he also finished with a match record tally of dismissals with 13. [3] In the same match as he set that record,he scored 99 runs while batting in the first innings and was left stranded on 99 not out in the second innings —the only player to have achieved this double near-miss.
The 1995–96 Logan Cup,known as the Lonrho Logan Cup for sponsorship reasons,was a first-class cricket competition held in Zimbabwe from 15 September 1995 –21 April 1996. It was won by Matabeleland,who beat Mashonaland Country Districts in the final having finished second behind them in the league stage of the competition. In the first innings of the final,Wayne James of Matabeleland,equaled the record of most dismissals in an innings by a wicket-keeper,with nine. He went on to take four more dismissals in the second innings,breaking the record for most dismissals in a match.