Full name Kevan David James 1982/83–1984/85 Wellington Education Edmonton County School 1985–1999 Hampshire Role Cricket Player | Name Kevan James Batting style Left-handed 1980–1984 Middlesex | |
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Born 18 March 1961 (age 63) ( 1961-03-18 ) Lambeth, London, England | ||
Bowling style Left-arm medium-fast | ||
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Kevan David James (born 18 March 1961, Lambeth, London) was educated at the Edmonton County School, in the London Borough of Enfield.
James was an English first-class cricketer for 19 years. He spent most of his career with Hampshire whom he won the NatWest Trophy and Benson & Hedges Cup with in the early 1990s.
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.
His brother, Martin, played List A cricket for Hertfordshire.