David Allan Janes (15 January 1944 – 15 September 1987) 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. Janes was a left-handed batsman. He was born in

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and educated at

Marlborough College Marlborough College is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English Independent school (United Kingdom), independent boarding school) for pupils aged 13 to 18 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. Founded in 1843 for the sons of Church ...

. Janes made his debut for

in the 1960

Minor Counties Championship The NCCA 3 Day Championship (previously the Minor Counties Cricket Championship) is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national cou ...

against

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. Janes played Minor counties cricket for Buckinghamshire from 1960 to 1976, which included 94 Minor Counties Championship matches. He scored 3,802 runs in these matches at an average of 26.59. In 1965, he made his

List A List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...

debut against Middlesex in the Gillette Cup. He played 3 further List A matches for Buckinghamshire, the last coming against

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in the

1972 Gillette Cup The 1972 Gillette Cup was the tenth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 5 July and 2 September 1972. The tournament was won by Lancashire County Cricket Club who defeated Warwickshire County Cric ...

. In his 4 List A matches, he scored 135 runs at a batting average of 33.75, with a single half century high score of 95. His highest score came against Cambridgeshire in the

. He died at King's College Hospital, London on 15 September 1987.

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