1. Jamie Oliver Troughton was born on 2 March 1979 and is an English cricket coach and former cricketer.
14 Facts About Jim Troughton
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Jim Troughton is currently Assistant Coach at Surrey, and as a player was mainly an attack-minded left-handed batsman and an occasional slow left-arm orthodox bowler.
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Jim Troughton played for the England one day international team.
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Jim Troughton is the son of the stage and television actor David Troughton, who is a leading member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the nephew of Michael Troughton.
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Jim Troughton is the younger brother of Robin Hood actor Sam Troughton and the cousin of Harry Melling, who appeared in the Harry Potter films.
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In 2014, Jim Troughton played Colin Blythe in an episode of BBC Radio 4 drama Home Front.
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Jim Troughton played six one day internationals for England, scoring 36 runs at an average of nine.
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Jim Troughton was a hard-hitting batsman with a good range of shots.
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Jim Troughton averaged a respectable 40 plus in the four day county game.
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Jim Troughton won the NBC Denis Compton Award in 2002.
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Jim Troughton was named Warwickshire captain for the 2011 season in November 2010.
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Jim Troughton captained Warwickshire to 2nd place in the 2011 County Championship, losing out on the title on the last day of the final game, with Lancashire finishing as champions.
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However, this disappointment was short-lived as Jim Troughton oversaw Warwickshire win the County Championship a year later.
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On 19 August 2014, Jim Troughton announced that he would be retiring, with immediate effect, because of a back injury.