William Jenkins (1788 – 27 July 1844) was an 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 ...

er. Jenkins' batting style is unknown. Jenkins made his first-class debut for

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

against a combined Hampshire and

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at Petworth Park in 1826. He made two further first-class appearances for Sussex, against the same opponents in a return fixture at

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in that same season, and against Surrey at Midhurst in 1830. In his three first-class matches, he scored a total of 52 runs at an average of 10.40, with a high score of 17. He died at Selham,

on 27 July 1844.

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