Jeff Jones (born 25 June 1958) is a former Guyanese

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 who played a single first-class match for Essequibo in the final of the 1980–81 inter-county Jones Cup. Jones, a right-handed

batsman In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the ball with a bat to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since September 2021, officially referred to as a batter (historically, the ...

and

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, was born in

Suddie Suddie is a community in the Pomeroon-Supenaam region of Guyana, located on the Atlantic Ocean, one mile north of Onderneeming. Suddie Hospital is a small (approximately 100-bed) hospital. Rural outreach clinics are sent into the interior and al ...

in what was then

British Guiana British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies, which resides on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana. The first European to encounter Guiana was S ...

(now part of Guyana's

Pomeroon-Supenaam Pomeroon-Supenaam (Region 2) is a region of Guyana. Venezuela claims the territory as part of Guayana Esequiba. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the north, the region of Essequibo Islands-West Demerara to the east, the region of Cuyuni-Mazaruni ...

region). He was one of four Essequibo players from Suddie, the others being batsmen

Alfred Maycock Aubrey Alfred Maycock (born 26 June 1949) is a former Guyanese cricketer who played a single first-class match for Essequibo in the final of the 1980–81 inter-county Jones Cup. Maycock was born in Suddie in what was then British Guiana (no ...

and

Lennox Alves Lennox Alves (born 7 March 1956) is a former Guyanese cricketer who played a single first-class match for Essequibo in the final of the 1980–81 inter-county Jones Cup. Alves, a right-handed batsman, was born in Suddie in what was then Brit ...

, and fast bowler

Courtney Gonsalves Courtney Alexander Gonsalves (31 August 1950 – 31 March 2013) was a Guyanese cricketer who played a single first-class match for Essequibo in the final of the 1980–81 inter-county Jones Cup, and also represented the Guyanese national sid ...

. In the match, played against

Berbice Berbice is a region along the Berbice River in Guyana, which was between 1627 and 1792 a colony of the Dutch West India Company and between 1792 to 1815 a colony of the Dutch state. After having been ceded to the United Kingdom of Great Britain ...

at the

Kayman Sankar Cricket Ground The Kayman Sankar Cricket Ground is a sporting venue in Hamptoncourtpolder, a village on the Atlantic coastline of Guyana's Pomeroon-Supenaam region. Its chief use has been as a cricket ground, though in recent years it has also hosted grasstrack ...

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(on the Atlantic coast), Jones scored five runs in each innings. He came in ninth in Essequibo's first innings, and was caught by

Hubern Evans Hubern Evans (born 16 April 1956) is a Guyanese cricketer. He played in nine first-class matches for Guyana from 1976 to 1989. See also * List of Guyanese representative cricketers The Guyana cricket team represents, originally, the British c ...

off the bowling of Leslaine Lambert. He was again dismissed by Lambert in the second innings (caught by Derek Kallicharran), having been promoted to number three, behind Fitz Garraway and Kamroze Mohammed. Jones effected only two dismissals during the match, catching Amarnauth Ramcharitar from fast bowler

Egbert Stephens Egbert Stephens (born 15 April 1952) is a former Guyanese cricketer who played a single first-class match for Essequibo in the final of the 1980–81 inter-county Jones Cup. Stephens, a right-arm fast bowler, was born in Dartmouth in what w ...

and stumping Hubern Evans off of Alfred Maycock's medium pacersEssequibo v Berbice
Jones Cup 1980/81 (Final) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 December 2014. Berbice won the match by nine wickets in what was Essequibo's only first-class match – only the final of the three-team Jones Cup (later the Guystac Trophy) was accorded first-class status, and Essequibo made the final only once, having defeated

Demerara Demerara ( nl, Demerary, ) is a historical region in the Guianas, on the north coast of South America, now part of the country of Guyana. It was a colony of the Dutch West India Company between 1745 and 1792 and a colony of the Dutch state fro ...

in an earlier match. The scorecards of the non-first-class matches played by Essequibo are not available before the late 1990s, and it is therefore uncertain how Jones played for Essequibo in other matches.Other matches played by Essequibo
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 December 2014.

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