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style="font-size: 125%"><div class="fn" style="display: inline;">Geraint Jones</div></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Geraint_Jones.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Geraint_Jones.jpg/220px-Geraint_Jones.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="231" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Geraint_Jones.jpg/330px-Geraint_Jones.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Geraint_Jones.jpg/440px-Geraint_Jones.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="503" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Jones in 2006</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">Personal information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Full name</th><td class="infobox-data nickname"><div class="fn">Geraint Owen Jones</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1976-07-14</span>) </span>14 July 1976<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 48)</span><br /><span class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Kundiawa" title="Kundiawa">Kundiawa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Height</th><td class="infobox-data">5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Batting</th><td class="infobox-data category">Right-handed</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Role</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/Wicket-keeper" title="Wicket-keeper">Wicket-keeper</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">International information <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">National sides</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England</a> (2004–2006)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea_national_cricket_team" title="Papua New Guinea national cricket team">Papua New Guinea</a> (<span class="nowrap">2012–2014</span>)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Test debut (cap <a href="/wiki/List_of_England_Test_cricketers" title="List of England Test cricketers">623</a>)</th><td class="infobox-data">10 April 2004 <br />England v <a href="/wiki/West_Indies_cricket_team" title="West Indies cricket team">West Indies</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Last Test</th><td class="infobox-data">14 December 2006 <br />England v <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">ODI debut (cap <a href="/wiki/List_of_England_ODI_cricketers" title="List of England ODI cricketers">181</a>/<a href="/wiki/List_of_Papua_New_Guinea_ODI_cricketers" title="List of Papua New Guinea ODI cricketers">5</a>)</th><td class="infobox-data">27 June 2004 <br />England v <a href="/wiki/West_Indies_cricket_team" title="West Indies cricket team">West Indies</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Last ODI</th><td class="infobox-data">9 November 2014 <br />PNG v <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_national_cricket_team" title="Hong Kong national cricket team">Hong Kong</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">ODI shirt no.</th><td class="infobox-data">10</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">T20I debut (cap <a href="/wiki/List_of_England_Twenty20_International_cricketers" title="List of England Twenty20 International cricketers">5</a>)</th><td class="infobox-data">13 June 2005 <br />England v <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Last T20I</th><td class="infobox-data">15 June 2006 <br />England v <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_national_cricket_team" title="Sri Lanka national cricket team">Sri Lanka</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">T20I shirt no.</th><td class="infobox-data">10</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">Domestic team information </th></tr><tr style="line-height: 9pt"> <th scope="col">Years</th><th scope="col">Team</th><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal; padding-right:3em">2001–2014</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kent_County_Cricket_Club" title="Kent County Cricket Club">Kent</a> <i>(squad no. 9)</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal; padding-right:3em">2014</th><td class="infobox-data">→ <a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Gloucestershire County Cricket Club">Gloucestershire</a> <small>(on loan)</small></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal; padding-right:3em">2015</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Gloucestershire County Cricket Club">Gloucestershire</a> <i>(squad no. 8)</i></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">Career statistics</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="padding:0"> <table style="width:100%; margin:-1px; white-space:nowrap;"> <tbody><tr><th style="width:6em; padding-right:1em">Competition</th> <th><a href="/wiki/Test_cricket" title="Test cricket">Test</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/One_Day_International" title="One Day International">ODI</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/First-class_cricket" title="First-class cricket">FC</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/List_A_cricket" title="List A cricket">LA</a></th> </tr><tr> <th style="width:6em; padding-right:1em">Matches</th> <td>34</td> <td>51</td> <td>203</td> <td>213</td> </tr><tr> <th style="width:6em; padding-right:1em">Runs scored</th> <td>1,172</td> <td>862</td> <td>9,087</td> <td>3,679</td> </tr><tr> <th style="width:6em; padding-right:1em"><a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(cricket)" title="Batting average (cricket)">Batting average</a></th> <td>23.91</td> <td>24.62</td> <td>32.45</td> <td>25.72</td> </tr><tr> <th style="width:6em; padding-right:1em">100s/50s</th> <td>1/6</td> <td>0/4</td> <td>15/50</td> <td>0/17</td> </tr><tr> <th style="width:6em; padding-right:1em">Top score</th> <td>100</td> <td>80</td> <td>178</td> <td>87</td> </tr><tr> <th style="width:6em; padding-right:1em">Catches/<a href="/wiki/Stumped" title="Stumped">stumpings</a></th> <td>128/5</td> <td>68/4</td> <td>599/36</td> <td>209/42</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2" style="display:none"></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="text-align: right">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/15501.html">CricInfo</a>, <span class="nowrap">30 March 2016</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Geraint Owen Jones</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Order of the British Empire">MBE</a></span></span> (born 14 July 1976) is a former cricketer who played for both <a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England</a> and <a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea_national_cricket_team" title="Papua New Guinea national cricket team">Papua New Guinea</a>. Born to Welsh parents in <a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a>, Jones was the first-choice <a href="/wiki/Wicketkeeper" class="mw-redirect" title="Wicketkeeper">wicketkeeper</a> for the England cricket team between 2004 and 2006. He later played international cricket for Papua New Guinea from 2012 to 2014. He announced his retirement from first-class cricket in July 2015 following his resignation as the first-class cricket captain of <a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Gloucestershire County Cricket Club">Gloucestershire County Cricket Club</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-retire_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-retire-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geraint_Jones&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jones was born in <a href="/wiki/Kundiawa" title="Kundiawa">Kundiawa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a>, and moved to <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> with his parents, who were originally from <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>, soon after he was born. He grew up in <a href="/wiki/Toowoomba" title="Toowoomba">Toowoomba</a> where he played in the under 21 team in the annual Spring Street Church cricket match. He went on to play in <a href="/wiki/Brisbane" title="Brisbane">Brisbane</a>, <a href="/wiki/Queensland" title="Queensland">Queensland</a>, played for the Queensland Colts (Under-21) team, and was awarded the wicketkeeper's trophy for most dismissals in the <a href="/wiki/Brisbane_Grade_Cricket" class="mw-redirect" title="Brisbane Grade Cricket">Brisbane Grade Cricket</a> competition in 1995/96 when he was 19/20. His first club in England was Lydney CC in the <a href="/wiki/Forest_of_Dean" title="Forest of Dean">Forest of Dean</a> but he returned to live in Australia until he was 22.<sup id="cite_ref-cricinfo_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cricinfo-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon his return to Britain he played for Clevedon CC. The following season he joined <a href="/wiki/Abergavenny" title="Abergavenny">Abergavenny</a> CC and was later appointed captain. Whilst at Abergavenny he trained as a pharmacist. He met his wife whilst playing for Clevedon; the couple has two sons. </p><p>After retiring, Jones joined <a href="/wiki/Brentwood_School,_Essex" title="Brentwood School, Essex">Brentwood School</a> as their cricket professional in November 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also worked as a business studies teacher. In 2019 he trained to become a <a href="/wiki/Retained_firefighter" title="Retained firefighter">retained firefighter</a> with <a href="/wiki/Kent_Fire_and_Rescue_Service" title="Kent Fire and Rescue Service">Kent Fire and Rescue Service</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geraint_Jones&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Domestic_career">Domestic career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geraint_Jones&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Domestic career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jones spent most of his career playing for <a href="/wiki/Kent_County_Cricket_Club" title="Kent County Cricket Club">Kent County Cricket Club</a>. He made his debut for Kent in 2001 after having played Second XI cricket for the side the previous season. He was <a href="/wiki/County_cap" class="mw-redirect" title="County cap">capped</a> by the side in 2003 and played in more than 380 top-class matches for Kent, making his final appearance for the side in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ca_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ca-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After losing his place in the Kent side to <a href="/wiki/Sam_Billings" title="Sam Billings">Sam Billings</a> at the start of the 2014 season, Jones joined <a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Gloucestershire County Cricket Club">Gloucestershire</a> on loan. He was released by Kent at the end of the season,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and signed a two-year deal with Gloucestershire in October 2014, but retired after only a year with the club.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="England_career">England career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geraint_Jones&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: England career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Geraint_Jones_bat.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Geraint_Jones_bat.jpg/220px-Geraint_Jones_bat.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="473" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Geraint_Jones_bat.jpg/330px-Geraint_Jones_bat.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Geraint_Jones_bat.jpg/440px-Geraint_Jones_bat.jpg 2x" data-file-width="543" data-file-height="1167" /></a><figcaption>Jones practises at the <a href="/wiki/Adelaide_Oval" title="Adelaide Oval">Adelaide Oval</a> during the 2006-07 Ashes.</figcaption></figure> <p>Jones replaced <a href="/wiki/Chris_Read" title="Chris Read">Chris Read</a> as England wicket-keeper during the 2004 tour of the West Indies.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later that year, playing against <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_national_cricket_team" title="New Zealand national cricket team">New Zealand</a>, he scored his only Test match century.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He toured South Africa in 2004/05 </p><p>In 2005 he took the final catch of the <a href="/wiki/2005_Ashes" class="mw-redirect" title="2005 Ashes">2005 Ashes</a> Test at <a href="/wiki/Edgbaston_Cricket_Ground" title="Edgbaston Cricket Ground">Edgbaston</a>, ensuring an England victory by two runs. In the <a href="/wiki/2006_New_Year_Honours" title="2006 New Year Honours">2006 New Year Honours</a>, Jones was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire_(MBE)" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of the British Empire (MBE)">MBE</a> for playing in the successful Ashes series. </p><p>A succession of dropped catches and missed <a href="/wiki/Stumped" title="Stumped">stumpings</a> during his England career had caused many commentators to question whether his value to the team as a <a href="/wiki/Batsman" class="mw-redirect" title="Batsman">batsman</a> was sufficient for him to hold his place against competition from more accomplished wicket-keepers such as Read and <a href="/wiki/James_Foster_(cricketer,_born_1980)" title="James Foster (cricketer, born 1980)">James Foster</a>. Until mid-2006 the England selectors maintained faith in Jones<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> believing that he offset his mistakes with several well-timed performances with the bat. His batting form tailed off and, after suffering a broken finger, he was replaced by Chris Read for the third Test against Pakistan in 2006. </p><p>Jones was not awarded a 12-month central contract for 2007, although neither was Read and both players were selected for the <a href="/wiki/2006-07_Ashes_series" class="mw-redirect" title="2006-07 Ashes series">2006-07 Ashes series</a>. Jones played the first three matches of the series but was dropped after poor performances and never regained his England place.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Papua_New_Guinea_career">Papua New Guinea career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geraint_Jones&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Papua New Guinea career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jones played for <a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Papua New Guinea cricket team">Papua New Guinea</a> in the 2012 <a href="/wiki/ICC_World_Twenty20_Qualifier" class="mw-redirect" title="ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier">ICC World Twenty20 Qualifiers</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His best score was 46 off 33 balls in PNG's victory over <a href="/wiki/Denmark_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Denmark cricket team">Denmark</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ca_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ca-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Papua New Guinea finished eighth out of 16. </p><p>He played again for PNG in the <a href="/wiki/2013_ICC_World_Twenty20_Qualifier" class="mw-redirect" title="2013 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier">2013 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier</a>, where he was a standout in the middle order for the side and provided much needed stability to the lineup, scoring 216 runs, with an average of 27 and a high score of 55. In early January 2014 he played in the <a href="/wiki/2014_Cricket_World_Cup_Qualifier" title="2014 Cricket World Cup Qualifier">2014 WCQ</a> held in NZ, top-scoring with 88 runs against Hong Kong, his highest score for PNG. PNG finished fourth in the tournament and were awarded <a href="/wiki/One_Day_International" title="One Day International">One Day International</a> and <a href="/wiki/T20_International" class="mw-redirect" title="T20 International">T20 International</a> status by the <a href="/wiki/International_Cricket_Council" title="International Cricket Council">International Cricket Council</a>. Jones played in two ODI's for the side, both against <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_cricket_team_against_Papua_New_Guinea_in_Australia_in_2014%E2%80%9315" title="Hong Kong cricket team against Papua New Guinea in Australia in 2014–15">Hong Kong</a> in Townsville, Australia. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career_best_performances">Career best performances</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geraint_Jones&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Career best performances"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="5">Batting </th></tr> <tr> <th>Type of cricket </th> <th>Score </th> <th>Fixture </th> <th>Venue </th> <th>Season </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Test_cricket" title="Test cricket">Test match</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">100 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England</a> v <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_national_cricket_team" title="New Zealand national cricket team">New Zealand</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Headingley_Cricket_Ground" title="Headingley Cricket Ground">Leeds</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">2004 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/One_Day_International" title="One Day International">ODI</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">80 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England</a> v <a href="/wiki/Zimbabwe_national_cricket_team" title="Zimbabwe national cricket team">Zimbabwe</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Queens_Sports_Club" title="Queens Sports Club">Bulawayo</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">2004 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Twenty20_International" title="Twenty20 International">T20I</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">19 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England</a> v <a href="/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rose_Bowl_(cricket_ground)" title="Rose Bowl (cricket ground)">Southampton</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">2005 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/First-class_cricket" title="First-class cricket">First-class</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">178 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kent_County_Cricket_Club" title="Kent County Cricket Club">Kent</a> v <a href="/wiki/Somerset_County_Cricket_Club" title="Somerset County Cricket Club">Somerset</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/St_Lawrence_Ground" title="St Lawrence Ground">Canterbury</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Kent_County_Cricket_Club_in_2010" title="Kent County Cricket Club in 2010">2010</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/List_A_cricket" title="List A cricket">List A</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">87 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Gloucestershire County Cricket Club">Gloucestershire</a> v <a href="/wiki/Leicestershire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Leicestershire County Cricket Club">Leicestershire</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Grace_Road" title="Grace Road">Leicester</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">2015 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Twenty20" title="Twenty20">Twenty20</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">56 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kent_County_Cricket_Club" title="Kent County Cricket Club">Kent</a> v <a href="/wiki/Sussex_County_Cricket_Club" title="Sussex County Cricket Club">Sussex</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/St_Lawrence_Ground" title="St Lawrence Ground">Canterbury</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Kent_County_Cricket_Club_in_2009" title="Kent County Cricket Club in 2009">2009</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geraint_Jones&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Test_cricketers_born_in_non-Test_playing_nations" title="List of Test cricketers born in non-Test playing nations">List of Test cricketers born in non-Test playing nations</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geraint_Jones&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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