James Bovill
James Bovill (born 2 June 1971 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Hampshire from 1993 to 1997.
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| Full name | James Noel Bruce Bovill | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 June 1971 High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1998–1999 | Buckinghamshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1993–1997 | Hampshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 8 December 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bovill was educated at Charterhouse School and Durham University.[1] He was a right-arm fast-medium bowler and a right-handed tail-end batsman. He joined Hampshire in 1993, and played 36 first-class matches and 18 one-day matches for the club. He took 99 first-class wickets for Hampshire, his best performance coming in Hampshire's first match in the 1995 County Championship, when he took 6 for 39 and 6 for 29 against Durham.[2]
At the end of the 1997 County Championship season Bovill was released by Hampshire. In 1998 he joined Buckinghamshire, representing the county in one-day matches in the NatWest Trophy before retiring from cricket at the end of the 1999 season.
References
- "Miscellaneous Matches played by James Bovill". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- Wisden 1996, p. 423.