All-rounder James Harris returns on a full-time basis to Glamorgan having spent a short period in late April and early May 2021 on loan with the Welsh county, with the former member of the Glamorgan Academy having agreed a three-year deal which will keep him at the Club until, at least, the end of the 2024 season.
James made his first-class debut in 2007 against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge with the schoolboy from Pontarddulais becoming the youngest bowler to take a Championship wicket for Glamorgan aged just 16 years and 351 days old. A couple of weeks later, James wrote himself another place in the Club’s record books as, just days after his seventeenth birthday, he took a dozen wickets in Glamorgan’s County Championship match against Gloucestershire at Bristol, besides taking a career-best 7/66 to become the youngest person to take ten wickets in a match for the Welsh county.
Later that season, also against Nottinghamshire at Swansea, James also featured in a record stand of 185 for the ninth wicket with Robert Croft, with James ending up on 87 and within sight of being Glamorgan’s youngest-ever Championship century-maker.
The subsequent seasons saw James continue his prodigious rise in the professional game, claiming his 100th wicket for the Welsh county at the age of just 19 years whilst, in 2010, he became the Club’s youngest-ever capped player.
His prowess as a waspish seam bowler and decent lower middle-order batsman had drawn the attention of the England selectors with the youngster playing for age-group teams before winning places in the England Under 19 and England Lions sides. It was these ambitions of playing international cricket which prompted his departure from Glamorgan with James agreeing terms with Middlesex at the end of the 2012 season, shortly before he was also called up by England for their T20 series in New Zealand.
He did not feature in any of the games and, despite further appearances for the England Lions, and a regular place in the Middlesex side, his international ambitions have yet to be fulfilled.
Batting
| Matches 4 |
| Innings 8 |
| Not Outs 4 |
| Runs 62 |
| Highest Score 28 |
| Average 15.50 |
| 50s 0 |
| 100s 0 |
Bowling
| Innings Bowled 7 |
| Overs 218.3 |
| Wickets 11 |
| Runs Conceded 448 |
| Average 40.73 |
| Economy Rate 4.11 |
| Best Bowling 4 for 18 |
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| Runs 0 |
| Highest Score 0 |
| Average 0.00 |
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| Overs 0.0 |
| Wickets 0 |
| Runs Conceded 0 |
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| Economy Rate 0.00 |
| Best Bowling 0 for 0 |
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| Best Bowling 0 for 0 |