Jonathan Govett (born 22 June 1969) is a retired 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 ...

player. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler who played for

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Personal life

He was born in St Germans, a small village in southwestern

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on 22 June 1969.

Playing career

Govett debuted in the Minor Counties Championship in 1995, four seasons after appearing for the only time in the Bain Clarkson Trophy in 1991. Govett made a single List A appearance, during the 1996 season, against

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. Berkshire lost the match, mainly thanks to a double century from England international

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Jonathan Govett
at Cricket Archive {{DEFAULTSORT:Govett, Jonathan 1969 births Living people English cricketers Berkshire cricketers People from St Germans, Cornwall