James Robert Moyes (born 16 December 1974) is 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. Moyes is a right-handed batsman who fields as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Workington,

Cumberland Cumberland ( ) is a historic county in the far North West England. It covers part of the Lake District as well as the north Pennines and Solway Firth coast. Cumberland had an administrative function from the 12th century until 1974. From 19 ...

. Moyes attended

Cockermouth School Cockermouth School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Cockermouth in the English county of Cumbria. Previously a community school administered by Cumbria County Council, Cockermouth School converted to academy st ...

and

Durham University , mottoeng = Her foundations are upon the holy hills (Psalm 87:1) , established = (university status) , type = Public , academic_staff = 1,830 (2020) , administrative_staff = 2,640 (2018/19) , chancellor = Sir Thomas Allen , vice_chan ...

. He made his debut for

in the 1994

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 Lincolnshire, and played Minor counties cricket for Cumberland to 2001, including 38 Minor Counties Championship matches and six MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. During his time with Cumberland he played a single

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 ...

match against the Worcestershire Cricket Board in the

2001 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy The 2001 Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 1 May and 1 September 2001. It was the first Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy following its change of name from the NatWest Tro ...

. In this match he scored 12 runs before being dismissed by Gareth Williams. Continuing his education at Cambridge, he made his first-class debut for Cambridge University against Middlesex in 2002. He played two further first-class matches in that season, against Essex and Oxford University. In his three first-class matches, Moyes scored 51 runs at a batting average of 10.20, with a high score of 35. Behind the

stumps In cricket, the stumps are the three vertical posts that support the bails and form the wicket. '' Stumping'' or ''being stumped'' is a method of dismissing a batsman. The umpire ''calling stumps'' means the play is over for the day. Part of ...

he took 6

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. His father, John, played List A cricket for Cumberland.

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