Jonathan Samuel Miles (born 21 February 1986) is an English

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er. Miles is a right-handed

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who bowls left-arm

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. He was born at

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, Warwickshire. Miles made his debut for

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

in the 2005

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against

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. He played

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cricket for Lincolnshire from 2005 to 2007, making 14 Minor Counties Championship and six MCCA Knockout Trophy appearances. He joined the MCC Young Cricketers programme in 2008, and in that same season he made his

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debut for the

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against Bangladesh A at The Racecourse, Durham. In Bangladesh A's innings, he took the wickets of

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and Nazimuddin, finishing with figures of 2/44 from nine overs. The 2010 season saw Miles play for

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, with him making four appearances for the county in that seasons Minor Counties Championship. In that same season he also signed for the

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team which would take part in the

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, a team formed of players without current full-time contracts with one of the regular first-class counties. He made his List A debut for the team against

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. Miles has made twelve further List A appearances for the team, the last of which came against

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in the

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. In his thirteen appearances for the Unicorns, he has taken a total of 10 wickets at an

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of 53.10, with best figures of 3/49. In 2014 Jonathan signed For Billingborough Horbling and Threekingham CC for their first season in the ECB Lincs Prem League. In 2023 Jonathan was named 1st XI captain for Hagley Cricket Club in Worcestershire Division 1.

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