Alan Jones (cricketer, born 1938)

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Alan Jones
Personal information
Full name
Alan Jones
Born (1938-11-04) 4 November 1938 (age 85)
Felindre, Glamorgan, Wales
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm off-break
RoleOpening batsman
RelationsEifion Jones (brother)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1957–1983Glamorgan
FC debut31 July 1957 Glamorgan v Gloucestershire
Last FC13 September 1983 Glamorgan v Hampshire
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 645 288
Runs scored 36,049 7,157
Batting average 32.89 27.21
100s/50s 56/194 2/42
Top score 204* 124*
Balls bowled 594 33
Wickets 3 3
Bowling average 111.00 9.00
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 1/24 3/21
Catches/stumpings 288/– 76/–
Source: CricketArchive, 28 February 2009

Alan Jones

Northern Transvaal. He holds the record for scoring the most runs in first-class cricket without playing in an official Test match.[1]

Career

Jones was a consistent, compact left-handed opening batsman who scored 1,000 first-class runs in every English cricket season from 1961 to 1983, when he retired.[2] In five out of six seasons from 1963 to 1968 he scored more than 1,800 runs, and he averaged in the mid 30s for most seasons.[3] His consistency and reliability were the foundation for the Championship-winning Glamorgan side of 1969, but were just as important in the much less successful sides of the 1970s.

A product of local cricket near

List A matches. He is the Glamorgan record holder for career runs and, jointly with Hugh Morris
, for centuries.

Jones is unique in having won a Test cap and then having had it taken away.

South African cricket team's tour. He scored just five and nought, dismissed by Mike Procter in both innings, and was not picked again. The match, originally given Test status, was later ruled not to count as a Test match.[2]
All the other players who played in this series appeared in Test cricket in other series.

Jones captained Glamorgan in 1977 and 1978. He was named as a

Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1978, after taking the county to its first List A final in the Gillette Cup the previous season.[2]

Jones' brother,

wicketkeeper for much of the period that Jones was the opening batsman, and his son Andrew
played once in a List A match for Glamorgan. He gained a reputation as a world-class coach, and coaches the Wales under 11s cricket team with the help of Peter Davies.

In June 2020, Jones was recognised as an England Test cricketer by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB),[5] with the ECB awarding him cap number 696,[6] fifty years after the match.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Golden gloves". ESPN Cricinfo. 4 November 2005. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  2. ^
    Cricinfo
    . Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  3. ^ "First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Alan Jones". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  4. ^ "Taking note of a Welsh cricketer's moment of test glory". International Herald Tribune. 11 April 2008. Archived from the original on 12 April 2008. Retrieved 11 April 2008.
  5. ^ "Alan Jones: Glamorgan batsman awarded England honour 50 years on". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Glamorgan legend Alan Jones awarded England cap". Glamorgan Cricket. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Alan Jones awarded England cap 50 years after debut". Shropshire Star. Retrieved 17 June 2020.