Jean Cedric Paul (born 13 November 1985) is a Dominican former cricketer who played for Dominica,

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and the

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.Jean Paul
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2022-04-17. Jean Paul

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. Retrieved 2022-04-17. Paul was born on Dominica in 1985. He played under-19 cricket for Dominica, winning the Windward Islands under-19 competition with the side in 2003, and for the Windward Islands under-19 side before making his debut for the senior Windward islands side in February 2005. His debut came in a

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match against

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, his only appearance for the senior side during the 2004/05 season. He went on to play in a total of seven first-class matches for the Windward Islands, two the following season and four in 2006/07. He played his only

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match in July 2005 for West Indies A against Sri Lanka A on the West Indies A team's tour of Sri Lanka. Paul had been called into the tour as a replacement, one of seven after players on the A team tour had been called into the

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squad. In 2006 he played his only

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match, a first-round tie for

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in the Stanford Twenty20 tournament against

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. He played one more match for Dominica, an unclassified Twenty20 match against St Lucia in 2011, taking two wickets. Predominantly a right-arm medium pace bowler, Paul took 15 wickets in his seven first-class matches, at a

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of 33.53 runs per wicket; his best bowling figures of 4/52 were taken on debut.Jeremy spearheads Leeward Island fightback

, 2005-02-20. Retrieved 2022-04-17. He did not take any wickets in either his List A or Twenty20 matches.

References

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