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# Michael Kaye

Michael Arthur Chadwick Porter Kaye TD DL (11 January 1916 – 22 September 1988) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Kaye played first-class cricket predominantly for Cambridge University and the Free Foresters between 1937 and 1949. He also served in the British Army with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, seeing action in the Second World War. He later served as a deputy lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire.

## Early life and university cricket

Kaye was born at Kensington in January 1916 and was educated at Harrow School, where he was a part of the Harrow School contingent of the Officers' Training Corps. After leaving Harrow he enlisted in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry as a second lieutenant in July 1935, before going up to Pembroke College, Cambridge. While studying at Cambridge he made his debut in first-class cricket for Cambridge University against the touring New Zealanders at Fenner's in 1937. His only other first-class appearance in 1937 came for the Free Foresters against Cambridge University. He appeared in eight first-class matches for the university in 1938, before touring Jamaica with a combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities team in August 1938, playing two first-class matches against Jamaica at Kingston. In nine first-class matches for Cambridge, he scored 244 runs with a high score of 78, while with his right-arm medium-fast bowling he took 26 wickets at an average of 34.50, with best figures of 5 for 89 against the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1938, which saw him dismissed Denis Compton for a duck. He gained a blue in 1938, and after graduating from Pembroke in the same year, he made a further first-class appearance for the Free Foresters against Cambridge University in 1939. He was also promoted to the rank of lieutenant in July 1938.

## Later military career and life

Kaye served with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry during the Second World War, holding the war substantive rank of captain by its conclusion. He resumed playing first-class cricket for the Free Foresters after the war, making four further appearances against Cambridge University between 1946 and 1949. In six matches for the Free Foresters, he scored 127 runs and took 4 wickets. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in May 1947. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration in February 1949, while in March 1955 he was appointed as an honorary colonel of a Territorial Army unit. Kaye resigned his commission in April 1959. He was appointed as a deputy lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire in June 1960. He died at Charing Cross in September 1998.
# Gary Joyce

Gary Steven Joyce (born 20 October 1964) is a former English cricketer. Joyce was a right-handed batsman who played primarily as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Frome, Somerset.
Joyce represented the Kent Cricket Board in three List A matches. These came against Denmark, the Worcestershire Cricket Board and Hampshire County Cricket Club, all in the 1999 NatWest Trophy. In his 3 List A matches, he scored 10 runs at a batting average of 5.00, with a high score of 6. Behind the stumps he took 4 catches.
# John Josephs

John Michael Josephs (16 January 1924 – 25 December 2012) was an English cricketer. Josephs was a right-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born at Hendon, Middlesex, and was educated at Clifton College.
Josephs made his first-class debut for Leicestershire against Oxford University in 1946. He made eight further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Northamptonshire in the 1953 County Championship. In his nine first-class appearances, Josephs scored 116 runs at an average of 9.66, with a high score of 25 not out. With the ball, he took just a single wicket at an overall cost of 86 runs. Josephs died peacefully at home on Christmas Day 2012.
# Keith Jones (cricketer, born 1951)

Alan Keith Colin Jones (born 20 April 1951) is an English former cricketer. Jones was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Solihull, Warwickshire, and was educated at Solihull School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Keith Jones made his first-class debut for Warwickshire against Scotland at Edgbaston in 1969. His next first-class appearance came during his university studies for Oxford University against Warwickshire. He made 28 further first-class appearances for the university, the last of which came in The University Match of 1973 against Cambridge University at Lord's. In his 29 first-class appearances for the university, Jones scored 1,102 runs at an average of 21.19, with a highest score of 111 against Nottinghamshire in 1971. He also made two first-class appearances for a combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities team, against the touring Australians in 1972 and the touring New Zealanders in 1973. It was for Oxford University that he also made his List A debut for in the 1973 Benson & Hedges Cup against Leicestershire. He made three further appearances in that season's competition, against Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and Worcestershire. He scored a total of 153 runs in these matches, at an average of 38.25 and with a high score of 82, which came against Northamptonshire.
Following the end of his studies in 1973, Jones returned to Warwickshire, where he played a half a dozen matches for the county at the end of the 1973 season. He made three first-class appearances in the County Championship against Kent, Middlesex and Gloucestershire, as well as making three List A appearances in the John Player League against Surrey, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire.
# Barry Jones (cricketer)

Barry John Richardson Jones (born 2 November 1955) is a former English cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket for Worcestershire between 1976 and 1980.
Jones was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire and educated at Wrekin College.
Jones made his first-class debut against Oxford University at The University Parks in late May 1976. Although he made only 10 and 4 from number two in the order, he was retained for the County Championship match which immediately followed. In this game, now batting at seven, he did no better, making only 11 and 1. After this, Jones spent a long period out of the first team, returning only in August when he was given a short run but again made no significant scores.
During the 1977 season, Jones played in the First XI more than at any other time, turning out for 14 first-class and six List A games. In late August he finally made his maiden fifty, hitting 65 against Warwickshire at Edgbaston. Wisden thought he had made "a steady advance" over the summer, but statistically his season as a whole was disappointing as he averaged only 16.31 in first-class cricket and 8.80 in the one-day game.
From 1978 to 1980, Jones was in and out of the Worcestershire side, often getting chances but never managing a really big score. Indeed, he was to score only one half-century in 26 first-class games during that period, an innings of 61 against Oxford University in June 1978. His most eye-catching achievement came in a Second XI match, when he hit a century in each innings versus Somerset II in August 1979.
Jones' career in top-class cricket ended after the 1980 season, and he returned to his family's farm in Shropshire. He played minor counties cricket with Shropshire in 1981 and 1982, and since 2006 he has made numerous appearances for Shropshire's Over-50s team. He has played at club level for Wroxeter.
His brother Bryan Jones made 20 List A appearances for Shropshire and played one Youth Test for England.
# Peter Johnson (cricketer, born 1926)

Peter Lovell Johnson (22 August 1926 – 11 July 2017) was an English first-class cricketer, Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator in Kenya Colony.

## Early life and first-class cricket

Johnson was born in the Liverpool suburb of Huyton, where he was educated in the city at Liverpool College. From Liverpool College he went up to Clare College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he made his debut in first-class cricket for Cambridge University against Middlesex at Fenner's in 1947. In what was his only appearance for Cambridge University, Johnson batted twice during the match, scoring 19 runs in the Cambridge first-innings before being dismissed by Rowland Shaddick, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 40 runs by Jack Robertson. He served in the Royal Navy shortly after, gaining promotion to lieutenant in July 1948. He was placed on the Emergency List in September 1950, the same year he in which he played one first-class match for the Combined Services cricket team against Essex at Chelmsford. He batted once during the match, scoring 2 runs before being dismissed by Ken Preston.

## Colonial service in Kenya

Soon after, Johnson moved to Kenya Colony to serve in the colonial administration. He was appointed by the Governor of Kenya Colony, Sir Philip Mitchell, as a second class magistrate in Coast Province in February 1952. Seven months later in September, he was appointed as a District Officer in Embu. He served in this position until December 1955, when he was appointed as a magistrate in Naivasha. Just under three years later, in May 1958, he was appointed to be a District Commissioner in Nyanza Province, relinquishing the position in July of the same year. He was to later be appointed as a courts officer to the Provincial African Courts in Central Province, but this appointment was cancelled in April 1961. The following year in April 1962, he was appointed as the private secretary to the Governor of Kenya Colony, Sir Patrick Muir Renison, an appointment which lasted until May 1963.
He returned to England at some point after this, where he died at Ross-on-Wye in July 2017.
# Trevor Jesty

Trevor Edward Jesty (born 2 June 1948) is an English former cricketer and cricket umpire. As a player he was an all rounder (a right-handed batsman and medium-pace bowler) who played 490 first-class matches, scoring 21,916 runs and taking 585 wickets, between 1966 and 1991.
Jesty was born in Gosport, Hampshire, and played for Hampshire, Surrey, and Lancashire in the English County Championship. He played overseas for Border and Griqualand West in South Africa, and Canterbury in New Zealand.
Jesty helped Hampshire to win the 1973 County Championship, taking 35 wickets at an average of 20 (although less successful with the bat that year), and the John Player League in 1975 and 1978.
Jesty played 10 one-day internationals for England, most of them during the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup tournament in 1983. His highlight was scoring 52 not out from 35 balls against New Zealand at Adelaide. He was named in the England squad for the 1983 World Cup (although not playing in any of the matches). He was named as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1983 for his performances during the 1982 English cricket season, during which he scored 1,645 runs at 58.75, including eight hundreds, and took 31 wickets. In 1983 he made 166 not out, his highest score in limited-over cricket, in a John Player League match against Surrey, sharing in an unbroken second-wicket stand of 269 with Gordon Greenidge.
After playing 340 games for Hampshire, Jesty moved to Surrey for the 1985 season, apparently in part because he was passed over for the Hampshire captaincy in favour of Mark Nicholas. Jesty played for Surrey for the next three seasons. While at Surrey he made 112 in a NatWest Trophy semi final against Lancashire in 1986, finishing narrowly on the losing side.
Jesty moved to Lancashire for the 1988 season. Into his forties he helped Lancashire to win the Refuge Assurance Cup in 1988, top-scoring in the final against Worcestershire, and the Refuge Assurance League in 1989. He was still at the county during its success in 1990, although appearing more in Refuge Assurance League fixtures.
In total Jesty scored 1,000 runs in a first-class season 10 times.
Following his retirement as a player, Jesty became a cricket umpire in England, and served as the reserve umpire for the Fourth Test Match at The Oval between England and Pakistan in 2006. In 2007 he umpired in the unauthorised Indian Cricket League. He continued as a first-class umpire until his retirement in 2013.
# Ted James (cricketer)

Albert Edward James (7 August 1924 – 2 April 2013) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Sussex. He was a right-hand batsman and right arm medium pace bowler who in 12 years of county cricket took 843 wickets. He was born in Newton Longville, Buckinghamshire and died at Eastbourne, East Sussex.
James began his cricket career with Buckinghamshire, playing four matches in the 1947 Minor Counties Championship. In 1948 he joined Sussex. He made his first-class debut against Yorkshire in May of that year, taking four wickets in his first match including that of England captain Norman Yardley. He was dropped from the first team mid-season, but finished his maiden season with 33 wickets at an average of 25.12.
James was a regular in the Sussex side for the next ten years, playing 299 matches for the club. He was awarded his county cap in 1950 and awarded a benefit season in 1961. He passed 50 wickets in a season for every year between 1950 and 1959, twice topping 100 for the season. His most prolific season was 1955 when he took 111 wickets at 21.31, including his best career figures of 9 for 60 against Yorkshire. The one wicket to evade him in that innings was that of Brian Close who was bowled by Robin Marlar.
James took 27 five-wicket hauls in his career, two of which came against touring international teams. The first came in 1953 when he recorded figures of 5/96 against the visiting Australians. The second was in 1959 when he took 5/65 against the Indian tourists.
# Steve James (cricketer)

Stephen Peter James (born 7 September 1967) is an English journalist and former cricketer who played two Test matches for England in 1998, making 71 runs in four innings.
James was captain of Glamorgan for three seasons before injury forced his retirement at the age of 36 in early 2004, after 17 seasons with the club. He played a total of 245 first-class matches, making 15,890 runs at a batting average just above 40, with a total of 47 centuries and a highest score of 309 not out against Sussex in 2000 – which is the Glamorgan record highest score. He scored more than 1,000 runs in a season nine times, with his two most prolific seasons following each other – 1,766 runs in 1996 was followed up with 1,775 runs in 1997, which led to his selection for the England A team before graduating to Test level the following season.
James also played two seasons of domestic cricket in Zimbabwe for Mashonaland in 1993/94 and 1994/95.
Since retirement, he has made a career as a journalist, initially covering cricket and rugby for The Sunday Telegraph and occasionally writing for The Daily Telegraph. He was removed by the paper just before Christmas 2016, and now writes for The Times.

## Rugby career

James was also a successful rugby player with Lydney R.F.C. mainly at the full back position. In a career spanning the 1985/86 to 1995/96 seasons he scored 140 points, including 31 tries, in 81 games.

## Publications
### Books

* James, Steve (2004). Third Man to Fatty's Leg: An Autobiography. First Stone Publishing. ISBN 978-1904439158.
* James, Steve (2012). The Plan: How Fletcher and Flower Transformed English Cricket. London: Bantam Press. ISBN 978-0593068335.
* James, Steve (2015). The Art of Centuries. London: Bantam Press. ISBN 978-0593072929.
* Hoult, Nick & James, Steve (2020). Morgan's Men: The Inside Story of England's Rise from Cricket World Cup Humiliation to Glory. London: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-1911630937.
# Martin James (cricketer)

Martin Henry James (born 26 October 1963) is a former English cricketer. James was a left-handed batsman who fielded occasionally as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Enfield, Middlesex.
James had a long career for Hertfordshire, playing 70 matches between 1991 and 2003, and scoring 3,915 runs in total at an average of 32.90 He was captain of Hertfordshire from 2001 to 2003. His highest score in minor counties cricket was 143, against Suffolk in August 1997, in a game in which he scored centuries in both innings.
In 1993, he made his List A debut against Gloucestershire in the NatWest Trophy. He made 8 further List A appearances for the county, the last coming against Bedfordshire in the 1st round of the 2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy, which was held in 2002. In his 9 List A matches, he scored 89 runs at a batting average of 9.88, with a high score of 26.
His brother, Kevan, played first-class cricket.
# Roger Jackson (cricketer)

Roger Frank Jackson (born 5 January 1939) is an English former first-class cricketer.
Jackson was born at Woolwich in January 1939. He later studied at Hertford College, Oxford where he played first-class cricket for Oxford University in 1962, making two appearances at Oxford against Gloucestershire and Yorkshire. Playing as a right-arm fast bowler, he bowled a total of 29 overs across his two matches, but failed to take a wicket.
# John Jacklin

John Jacklin (born 12 December 1947) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler who played for Cambridgeshire. He was born in Cambridge.
Jacklin, who represented Cambridgeshire in the Minor Counties Championship between 1975 and 1977, made a single List A appearance for the side, in the 1975 Gillette Cup, against Northamptonshire.
Jacklin scored 0 not out and took bowling figures of 3-40 from 12 overs of bowling, taking the wicket of Pakistan Test cricketer Mushtaq Mohammad, though this was not enough to save the team from a 69-run defeat.
# Nigel Ilott

Nigel Ilott (born 22 August 1965) is a former English cricketer. He played as a right-handed batsman for Hertfordshire. He was born in Watford.
Ilott, who made his Minor Counties Championship debut for the team in the 1988 season, and who played with the team until 1994, made a single List A appearance for the team, during the 1993 season, against Gloucestershire. From the upper-middle order, he scored 14 runs.
Ilott's brother, Mark played Test cricket for England, while his father, John, umpired NatWest Trophy matches between 1999 and 2003.
# Michael Ikin

Michael John Ikin (born 31 December 1946) is a former English cricketer. Ikin was a left-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born in Bignall End, Staffordshire. His father, Jack Ikin, played Test cricket for England.
Ikin made his debut for Staffordshire in the 1967 Minor Counties Championship against Norfolk. Ikin played Minor counties cricket for Staffordshire from 1967 to 1985, which included 105 Minor Counties Championship matches. In 1971, he made his List A debut for Staffordshire against Glamorgan in the Gillette Cup. He made 6 further appearances in List A cricket for the county, the last coming against Sussex in the 1978 Gillette Cup. In his 7 List A matches for the county, he scored 89 runs at an average of 12.71, with a high score of 47. With the ball, he took 6 wickets at an average of 29.50, with best figures of 3/13.
Ikin also played 2 first-class matches for the Minor Counties cricket team, the first came in 1972 against the touring Australians. He was dismissed in the Minor Counties first-innings for 4 runs by Jeff Hammond. Following-on in their second-innings, Ikin was dismissed for 5 by Graeme Watson. He made his second first-class appearance in 1979 against the touring Indians. Not required to bat in the Minor Counties first-innings, Ikin proceeded to bowl 23 wicket-less overs in the Indians first-innings. In the Minor Counties second-innings, he made his highest first-class score of 31, before being dismissed by Chetan Chauhan. He then bowled 12 wicket-less overs in the Indians second-innings. He also made 2 List A appearances for Minor Counties East in the 1977 Benson & Hedges Cup against Essex and Yorkshire. In these matches, he scored 60 runs at an average of 30.00, while making his only List A half century. This came in the match against Yorkshire. He took just a single wicket for the team at a cost of 91 runs.
# Jack Ikin

John Thomas Ikin (7 March 1918 – 15 September 1984) was an English cricketer, who played in eighteen Test matches from 1946 to 1955. A "calm, popular left-hander who also bowled leg spin", Ikin played most of his cricket for Lancashire. He was a solid left-handed batsman whose statistically modest Test record underplayed his contribution to the team as a sturdy foil to such players as Bill Edrich, Len Hutton and Denis Compton.

## Life and career

He played minor county cricket for Staffordshire from the age of sixteen, and appeared for Lancashire in four games in 1939, taking George Headley's wicket as the first of 339 in first-class matches. After losing perhaps his best years to World War II, during which he fought at Tobruk, he resumed his career for Lancashire in 1946 and became a mainstay of the team, recording 1,000 runs in a season eleven times. He toured Australia in the 1946–47 Ashes series, compiling an obdurate 60 at Sydney and featuring in a brave stand of 118 with Norman Yardley in Melbourne. He was involved in a pivotal incident in the first Test at Brisbane when he claimed to have caught Don Bradman at second slip for 28 from the bowling of Bill Voce, only for the umpire to rule the batsman not out. Bradman went on to make 187. Ikin went on MCC's disastrous 1947/48 tour of the West Indies under Gubby Allen and was understandably less successful, but he scored 625 runs at an average of 89.28 on the Commonwealth XI tour of India and Ceylon in 1950/51.
In Cyril Washbrook's benefit match against the 1948 Australians, Ikin had reached 90 when Bradman instructed Keith Miller to bowl. Miller refused, noting that Ikin had been a Rat of Tobruk, but his fast bowling partner Ray Lindwall denied Ikin his century, bowling him for 99. Ikin took a hat-trick against Somerset in 1949, and recorded his highest score of 192 against Oxford University in 1951. Gradually, injury and fragile health took its toll, and Ikin retired at the end of the 1957 season, with 17,968 first-class runs to his name. He resumed his minor county career with success for Staffordshire, playing on until 1968 and served as assistant manager on the 1965/66 MCC tour of Australia. nb. Jack Ikin's benefit match was against county champions Surrey in 1953.
# Nicholas Héroys

Nicholas Héroys (1 April 1937 – 26 January 2019) was an English chartered accountant and amateur cricketer who played in one first-class cricket match for Cambridge University Cricket Club in 1960.
Héroys was born at Marylebone in London, the son of Vladmir and Sheila Héroys, and educated at Tonbridge School in Kent. After leaving school he was commissioned in the Royal Leicestershire Regiment and completed his National Service before going up to Cambridge University. He played cricket and rackets at school and cricket for teams at University. His only appearance for the University side itself came in a first-class match against Hampshire County Cricket Club in May 1960.
Professionally Héroys worked for printing company McCorquodale, joining the company board in 1978, becoming their Finance Director and, in 1985, chairman of Wisden Group after McCorquodale bought the group. He finished his career as Finance Director of Slaughter and May, was a General Committee member of Kent County Cricket Club for over 30 years starting in 1970 and was President of the club in 1995–96. He played club cricket for Old Tonbridgians, captaining the team to five finals of The Cricketer Cup.
Héroys was married to his wife, Susan, for more than 50 years and had two sons. He died in January 2019 aged 81.