Richard Jaynes Devereux (born 26 December 1938) is a former English

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er who played first-class and

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for

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in 1963. Devereux had played for the Worcestershire Second XI since 1959, but his first-class debut had to wait until May 1963, when he was selected to face

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. He top-scored with 22

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from number eight in Worcestershire's painful first-innings progress to 79 all out in 55.4 overs, then took 0/49 with the ball; the game was drawn. He stayed in the side until the middle of June, playing along the way in his only List A game, a Gillette Cup quarter-final in which he made an important 30 from number nine, and making his only first-class half-century, 55 * against

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; he also took his best innings figures of 3/44 in that game. but then a paucity of wickets forced him back to the seconds. There, he still found it hard at first to take wickets, though he did score a couple of fifties. However, in July Devereux took ten wickets in the match against

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II, and seven more wickets in the next match, against Essex II, propelled him back into the first team before the month was out. Not for long, however: once more he struggled to take wickets, and after he had taken none at all in three successive games against

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and

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he was back in the Second XI. This time there would be no return, and Devereux never again played senior cricket.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Devereux, Richard English cricketers Worcestershire cricketers 1938 births Living people People from Castle Bromwich Sportspeople from the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull Cricketers from Warwickshire