Kevan David James was educated at the Edmonton County School

Edmonton County School

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, in the London Borough of Enfield

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James was an English

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 first-class cricket

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er for 19 years. He spent most of his career with Hampshire

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 whom he won the NatWest Trophy and Benson & Hedges Cup

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 with in the early 1990s.

A middle-order batsman and left-arm seam bowler, he toured Australia

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 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

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. 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

Sachin Tendulkar

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 and Rahul Dravid

Rahul Dravid

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. The Cricinfo

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 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

Martin James (cricketer)

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, played List A cricket for Hertfordshire

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