Michael Pradeep Williams Jeh (born 21 April 1968) is a former cricketer who played for the

Marylebone Cricket Club Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's Cricket Ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London. The club was formerly the governing body of cricket retaining considerable global influence ...

and

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. Jeh was born in

Colombo Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo me ...

Ceylon Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

and emigrated to Australia as a refugee at the age of 15. After graduating from

Griffith University Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland on the east coast of Australia. Formally founded in 1971, Griffith opened its doors in 1975, introducing Australia's first degrees in environmental science and Asian s ...

, he attended

, where he studied as a postgraduate.

Cricket career

While studying at Oxford, Jeh played first class cricket for

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and Combined Universities. He later played a single first class match for

. Jeh also played for Valley District Cricket Club in Brisbane Grade Cricket, where he was a teammate of Matthew Hayden and a number of other Test and First-Class cricketers.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jeh, Michael 1968 births Sri Lankan cricketers Oxford University cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Griffith University alumni Alumni of Keble College, Oxford Australian people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent Living people Australian cricketers Oxford and Cambridge Universities cricketers British Universities cricketers Cricketers from Colombo