Kevan James

Kevan David James (born 18 March 1961) is an English former first-class cricketer who spent most of his career with Hampshire whom he won the NatWest Trophy and Benson & Hedges Cup with in the early 1990s.

He was born at Lambeth in 1961 and educated at the Edmonton County School, in the London Borough of Enfield.

A middle-order batsman and left-arm seam bowler, he toured Australia and the West Indies with Young England before forging a successful career with Hampshire. He also played some first-class cricket for Wellington in New Zealand. James is perhaps best known for a game against India 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 Sachin Tendulkar 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.

His brother, Martin, played List A cricket for Hertfordshire.

Since at least 2003, James has been reporting on Hampshire for BBC Radio Solent and is currently a Hampshire commentator for the BBC's ball-by-ball radio coverage of county cricket. He is known for his deep voice.