1. Leslie Ethelbert George Ames was a wicket-keeper and batsman for the England cricket team and Kent County Cricket Club.
13 Facts About Les Ames
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Les Ames is the only wicket-keeper-batsman to score a hundred first-class centuries, and was a Wisden cricketer of the year in 1928.
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Les Ames received the call to play for Kent while playing in West Malling and made his debut for the county on 7 July 1926 against Warwickshire at the Nevill Ground in Royal Tunbridge Wells.
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Les Ames scored 35 and took four catches, despite not playing as a wicket-keeper in the match.
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Les Ames played one more County Championship match that season before becoming a regular in the 1927 season.
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Les Ames made his debut for England in the Fifth Test against South Africa at The Oval on 17 August 1929, making a duck and taking two catches.
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In Test cricket, Les Ames played 47 matches, scoring 2,434 runs with a batting average of 40.56.
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Les Ames was one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1929.
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Les Ames holds a number of wicket-keeping and batting records:.
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Les Ames was the secretary and manager of Kent County Cricket Club, including when the side won the County Championship in 1970.
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Les Ames' team included Denis Compton, Colin Cowdrey, Jack Robertson, George Tribe and John Murray.
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Les Ames joined football club Clapton Orient in 1926 making his League debut against Preston North End in January 1927 and a total of 14 senior appearances in five seasons, before briefly playing for Gillingham in 1931, where he made five appearances and scored one goal.
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Les Ames returned to play as a batsman for Kent after the war.