Kevan David James (born 18 March 1961, Lambeth,

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) is an English former

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er who spent most of his career with

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whom he won the

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and Benson & Hedges Cup with in the early 1990s. He was educated at the

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, in the

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. A middle-order batsman and left-arm seam bowler, he toured Australia and the

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with Young England before forging a successful career with Hampshire. He also played some first-class cricket for

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. James is perhaps best known for a game against the Indians in 1996 when he took a record equaling four wickets in four balls, and followed it up with a hundred later in the match. These Indian wickets included

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and Rahul Dravid. The Cricinfo report from the match claimed that no-one, in the history of cricket, had taken four wickets in four balls and scored a hundred in the same game. The second player to have accomplished a 4-in-4 and a century was Kelly Smuts, for Eastern Province (EP) against Boland at Paarl in 2015–16. Smuts had a magical game, scoring the only individual century of the game (108) in the only EP innings of 442, and capturing 7 for 36 and 6 for 35. His brother,

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, played

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for Hertfordshire. Since at least 2003, Kevan has been reporting on

for

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and is currently the lead Hampshire commentator for the BBC's ball-by-ball radio coverage of county cricket.

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