Alfred William Jones (6 August 1900 – 7 August 1986) was an English

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er. Jones was a left-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Jones made a single first-class appearance for Northamptonshire against

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

in the

1933 County Championship The 1933 County Championship was the 40th officially organised running of the County Championship. Yorkshire County Cricket Club Yorkshire County Cricket Club is one of 18 first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of ...

at the

Town Ground, Peterborough The Town Ground in Peterborough, England, is a cricket ground which was used by Northamptonshire County Cricket Club in First-class matches for 60 years between 1906 and 1966. It is now used predominantly for Northamptonshire Premier League gam ...

. He scored a single run in Northamptonshire's first-innings, before being dismissed by

Albert Wensley Bert Wensley (24 May 1898 – 17 June 1970) was an English first-class cricketer. In 400 first-class matches, mainly for Sussex from 1922 to 1936, he took 1,135 wickets with his medium pace bowling and scored more than 10,000 runs. He did ...

, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 12 by

James Langridge James Langridge (10 July 1906 – 10 September 1966) was an English cricketer, who played for Sussex and England. He played in eight Tests than spanned either side of World War II. Cricket writer, Colin Bateman, noted, "a great servant of Sus ...

. He died at

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, Cambridgeshire the day after his 86th birthday on 7 August 1986.

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