Jonathan Robert William Harvey (born 3 February 1944) is a former English

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er who played for

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from 1963 to 1965. Jonathan Harvey attended

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, where he captained the First XI, before going up to

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'' 1966, pp. 337–38. An opening bowler, he gained his

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in 1965. His best first-class figures were 5 for 28 against

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in 1965, in a match that Somerset nevertheless won by an innings. He took 3 for 47 and 4 for 78 against

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a week later. The next match was the

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, in which he took three wickets and took part in an unbroken tenth-wicket partnership with

Rupert Roopnaraine Rupert Roopnaraine (born 31 January 1943) is a Guyanese cricketer, writer, and politician. Roopnaraine served as Minister of Education of Guyana between 2015 and 2017. Biography Roopnaraine was born in Kitty, Georgetown, Guyana. In 1954, ...

that yielded no runs but prevented defeat. He became a barrister in London.

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