Stephen Jefferies
{{short description|South African cricketer}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Stephen Jefferies
| full_name = Stephen Thomas Jefferies
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|12|08|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Cape Town, South Africa
| batting = Left-handed
| bowling = Left-arm fast-medium
| club1 = Western Province
| year1 = {{no wrap|1978/79–1991/92}}
| club2 = Derbyshire
| year2 = 1982
| club3 = Lancashire
| year3 = 1983–1985
| club4 = Hampshire
| year4 = 1988–1989
| club5 = Boland
| year5 = 1993/94
| type1 = FC
| debutdate1 = 24 November
| debutyear1 = 1978
| debutfor1 = Western Provinces
| debutagainst1 = Eastern Province
| lastdate1 = 10 December
| lastyear1 = 1993
| lastfor1 = Boland B
| lastagainst1 = Western Province B
| type2 = LA
| debutdate2 = 25 October
| debutyear2 = 1980
| debutfor2 = Western Province
| debutagainst2 = Orange Free State
| lastdate2 = 12 January
| lastyear2 = 1994
| lastfor2 = Boland
| lastagainst2 = Transvaal
| columns = 2
| column1 = FC
| matches1 = 142
| runs1 = 3,810
| bat avg1 = 25.06
| 100s/50s1 = 0/14
| top score1 = 93
| deliveries1 = 27,416
| wickets1 = 478
| bowl avg1 = 27.62
| fivefor1 = 19
| tenfor1 = 4
| best bowling1 = 10/59
| catches/stumpings1 = 54/0
| column2 = LA
| matches2 = 175
| runs2 = 1,705
| bat avg2 = 21.31
| 100s/50s2 = 0/2
| top score2 = 74*
| deliveries2 = 9,243
| wickets2 = 256
| bowl avg2 = 22.67
| fivefor2 = 2
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 5/10
| catches/stumpings2 = 42/0
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/stephen-jefferies-45722 ESPNcricinfo
| date = 29 January
| year = 2022
}}
Stephen Thomas Jefferies (born 8 December 1959) is a former South African first-class cricketer.
Career
Jefferies was a left-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-fast bowler whose career centred on his home country of South Africa, though in 1982 he briefly moved to England and played for Derbyshire. He made his debut for Derbyshire in July of that year against a team of Pakistanis, and returned to South Africa in order to be eligible to play in the SAB Currie Cup during the 1982–83 season.
Jefferies' Western Province team, which included Test players Peter Kirsten, Graham Gooch and John Emburey amongst others, drew the Currie Cup final that season, but lost on countback, having had a less successful qualifying record. Jefferies was proclaimed one of five South African Cricket Annual Cricketers of the Year in 1982.
He moved back to England in April 1983, immediately following yet another Castle Currie Cup final appearance, this time a defeat by Transvaal, in order to play for Lancashire, and, during a match in June of that year, took 8/46, the second highest individual innings total of the season, and 11/95 in the match, one of the highest match-returns.
In December 1987 he took all ten wickets in the second innings a Castle Currie Cup game for Western Province against Orange Free State, the only man to do so in that season's competition.{{Cite web |title=Castle Currie Cup 1987/88 - Five wickets in an innings |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/RSA/Castle_Currie_Cup_1987-88/Five_Wickets_in_Innings.html |access-date=2022-01-29 |website=CricketArchive|url-access=subscription}}
Jefferies returned to England for 1988, playing for Hampshire. He was signed to cover for Malcolm Marshall whose availability was limited due to international commitments. He was man of the match in the final of the 1988 Benson & Hedges Cup, taking 5/13 in ten overs.{{Cite news |date=17 February 1988 |title=Hampshire signing |work=The Times}}{{Cite web |title=Derbyshire v Hampshire in 1988 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/50/50243.html |access-date=2022-01-29 |website=CricketArchive|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite news |last=Lee |first=Alan |date=11 July 1988 |title=Jefferies finds fulfilment |work=The Times}} In county cricket, Hampshire finished third-bottom of the 1988 County Championship, the year's highlight being another of Jefferies' career total of four ten-wicket match hauls. He continued to play for Western Province and Hampshire until 1992. Jefferies' career concluded in 1993 when he played for Boland B in the 1993–4 UCB Bowl tournament.
Jefferies coached the Habsani Royals in the 2012 edition of the Wembley Super 8 Cricket Festival in Rylands, Cape Town.
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{cricinfo|id=45722}}
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Category:South African cricketers
Category:South African people of British descent
Category:Derbyshire cricketers
Category:South African expatriate cricketers in England
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Category:Western Province cricketers
Category:Cricketers who have taken ten wickets in an innings