James Matthew Coles (born 2 April 2004) is an English cricketer who plays for Sussex.[1] He made his first-class debut on 6 September 2020, for Sussex in the 2020 Bob Willis Trophy.[2]
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Full name | James Matthew Coles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (2004-04-02) 2 April 2004 (age 18) Compton, California, USA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed grabber | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Left-arm fiddler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2020–present | Sussex (squad no. 30) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First-class debut | 6 September 2020 Sussex v Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
List A debut | 23 July 2021 Sussex v Lancashire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 2 October 2022 |
At the age of 12, Coles joined the Sussex academy,[3] and he has represented them at the Bunbury Festival.[4] He has also played for Aston Rowant in the Oxfordshire cricket league, and in 2020, he scored a century on his Oxfordshire debut against Buckinghamshire.[4] At the age of 16 years and 157 days old, Coles became the youngest player to appear in a first-class match for the county.[5] The record had been held by John Mare since 1870.[3]
He has received the Oxford Junior Sportsman of the Year award and Sir John ‘Jack’ Hobbs Silver Jubilee Memorial Prize for the most outstanding under-16 schoolboy cricketer in England.[6] He made his List A debut on 23 July 2021, for Sussex in the 2021 Royal London One-Day Cup.[7]
In December 2021, he was named in England's team for the 2022 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup in the West Indies.[8]
Coles was a student at Magdalen College School, Oxford, up until 2022.[4]
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