Fabian Alex Adams (born 7 January 1975) is a former

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n cricketer who played for the

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in West Indian domestic cricket. A right-handed

opening batsman In cricket, the batting order is the sequence in which batters play through their team's innings, there always being two batters taking part at any one time. All eleven players in a team are required to bat if the innings is completed (i.e., if ...

, he was the first Anguillan to score a first-class hundred. Adams made his first-class debut for the Leewards in May 1997, playing against

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in the 1996–97 Red Stripe Cup.First-class matches played by Alex Adams
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 January 2016. He was out for five runs in the first innings, but made 69 not out in the second, opening the batting with

Junie Mitchum Junie Alexander Mitchum, born 22 November 1973 in Saint Kitts, is a West Indian cricketer who has played first-class and List A cricket for the Leeward Islands french: Îles-Sous-le-Vent , image_name = , image_caption = ''Political'' Leeward ...

. In February 2003, Adams made 103 not out against West Indies B, becoming the first Anguillan to score a first-class century. He finished the 2002–03 Carib Beer Cup season with 473 runs from seven games, behind only Stuart Williams for the Leewards. In the

2002–03 Red Stripe Bowl The 2002–03 Red Stripe Bowl was the 29th edition of what is now the Regional Super50, the domestic limited-overs cricket competition for the countries of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). It ran from 14 August to 1 September 2002, with ma ...

, in Williams' absence, Adams served as captain of the Rest of Leeward Islands team that played during

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's period as a separate participant. He played his final matches for the Leewards in the 2004–05 Regional Four Day Competition, aged 29. In 2006, Adams also played a single match for

in the

Stanford 20/20 The Stanford 20/20 was a short-lived cricket tournament in the Caribbean island of Antigua. It was held first in July and August 2006 in the West Indies at the Stanford Cricket Ground, St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda, and then again in the s ...

tournament, against

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.Twenty20 matches played by List A matches played by Alex Adams
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 January 2016.

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