| Kevan James | |
| Country: | England |
| Fullname: | Kevan David James |
| Birth Date: | 18 March 1961 |
| Birth Place: | Lambeth, London, England |
| Batting: | Left-handed |
| Bowling: | Left-arm medium-fast |
| Club1: | Hampshire |
| Year1: | 1985 - 1999 |
| Club2: | Wellington |
| Club3: | Middlesex |
| Year3: | 1980 - 1984 |
| Columns: | 2 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 225 |
| Runs1: | 8,526 |
| Bat Avg1: | 30.45 |
| 100S/50S1: | 10/42 |
| Top Score1: | 162 |
| Deliveries1: | 24,687 |
| Wickets1: | 395 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 31.91 |
| Fivefor1: | 11 |
| Tenfor1: | 1 |
| Best Bowling1: | 8/49 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 78/ - |
| Column2: | List A |
| Matches2: | 254 |
| Runs2: | 2,459 |
| Bat Avg2: | 19.83 |
| 100S/50S2: | 0/7 |
| Top Score2: | 66 |
| Deliveries2: | 10,958 |
| Wickets2: | 247 |
| Bowl Avg2: | 31.28 |
| Fivefor2: | 2 |
| Tenfor2: | 0 |
| Best Bowling2: | 6/35 |
| Catches/Stumpings2: | 69/ - |
| Date: | 17 May |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/content/player/15474.html Cricinfo |
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]