Full name Andrew James Jones 1993–2009 Wales Minor Counties | 1998 Minor Counties Batting style Right-handed Name Andrew Jones | |
Andrew James Jones (born 5 August 1972) is a former Welsh cricketer. Jones was a right-handed batsman. He was born in Swansea, Glamorgan.
Jones made his debut for Wales Minor Counties in the 1992 Minor Counties Championship against Herefordshire. He played Minor counties cricket for Wales Minor Counties from 1992 to 2009, which included 58 Minor Counties Championship matches and 11 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. He made his List A debut for Wales Minor Counties against Sussex in the 1993 NatWest Trophy. It was in 1993 that he made his only appearance for Glamorgan, in a List A match against Warwickshire. In 1998, he made 3 appearances for a combined Minor Counties cricket team in the Benson & Hedges Cup.
For Wales Minor Counties, he made 12 further List A appearances, the last coming against Nottinghamshire in the 2005 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy. In his 13 List A matches for the team, he scored 306 runs at a batting average of 25.50, with 2 half centuries and a high score of 93, which came against Denmark in the 2004 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy
His father, Alan and uncle Eifion, have both played first-class cricket.