Alan Jones (cricketer, born 1938)
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Full name | Alan Jones | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Felindre, Glamorgan, Wales | 4 November 1938|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm off-break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Opening batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Eifion Jones (brother) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1957–1983 | Glamorgan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FC debut | 31 July 1957 Glamorgan v Gloucestershire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last FC | 13 September 1983 Glamorgan v Hampshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 28 February 2009 |
Alan Jones
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
Jones is unique in having won a Test cap and then having had it taken away.
Jones captained Glamorgan in 1977 and 1978. He was named as a
Jones' brother,
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
- ^ "Golden gloves". ESPN Cricinfo. 4 November 2005. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
- ^ Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
- ^ "First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Alan Jones". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Alan Jones: Glamorgan batsman awarded England honour 50 years on". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
- ^ "Glamorgan legend Alan Jones awarded England cap". Glamorgan Cricket. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
- ^ "Alan Jones awarded England cap 50 years after debut". Shropshire Star. Retrieved 17 June 2020.