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It's England glory for Geraint

A FORMER player with Abergavenny Cricket Club has become the first of their amateur players to gain an England cap.

Wicket-keeper and batsman Geraint Jones was with Abergavenny for the 1999 and 2000 seasons, and worked as a trainee technician while at Shackleton's pharmacy in Nevill Street.

Brian Shackleton, president of Abergavenny Cricket Club missed Geraint's England debut, which came last week when England's West Indies tour moved to Antigua, but met him when he watched the cricket in Trinidad.

He said: "He's a very pleasant lad, who was very popular with all the staff when he worked in our pharmacy.

"Funnily enough, he could not get a stint as our wicket-keeper because Mark Wallace was playing for us then, but he was a good batsman.

"We are all very proud of him at the club, because we've never had one of our amateur players going on to play for England before."

While he was working in Abergavenny, Geraint stayed with Owen Dawkins and his family in Crickhowell, and Owen has just landed himself a plum job with MCC as an assistant coach.