James Peter Garner (born 27 January 1972) is a former 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. Garner was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Tittleshall, Norfolk and educated at Felsted School. Garner made his debut for Norfolk in the 1991

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against

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. Garner played Minor counties cricket for Norfolk from 1991 to 2002, which included 19 Minor Counties Championship matches and 18 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. 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 Cornwall in the

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. He made 5 further List A appearances, the last coming against Kent in the

2002 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy The 2002 Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 29 August 2001 and 31 August 2002. It was the second Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy, following its change of name from the Na ...

. In his 6 List A matches, he scored 54 runs at an average of 10.80, with a high score of 27.

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