Jenson Eugene Simon Joseph (born 7 October 1966) is a former

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n cricketer who played for the

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in West Indian domestic cricket. He was a right-arm fast-medium bowler. In 1987, Joseph played in England for

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in the

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scoring 462 runs (avge 25.66) and taking 55 wickets (avge 15.76) in 24 matches. Joseph made his first-class debut in January 1995, playing against

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in the 1994–95 Red Stripe Cup.First-class matches played by Jenson Joseph
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2016. He took 5/59 on debut, and finished 28 wickets from five matches for the season, making him the equal leading wicket-taker in the competition (with Warrington Phillip of the

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). At the end of the 1994–95 season, Joseph was selected to play for West Indies A, featuring in two limited-overs games against

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. He took only a single wicket, that of

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.List A matches played by Jenson Joseph
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2016. Joseph never recaptured the form of his debut season, and played his last game for the Leewards in January 1997.

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