JONES, Charles Ernest Llewellyn
D.O.B: November 3, 1902 (Georgetown, Guyana)
Teams:  British Guiana, West Indies
Charlie Jones was a competent left-handed batsman and orthodox spin bowler at the regional level who contested four Test matches for the West Indies in the 1930s – all of them in the Caribbean against England – without ever distinguishing himself.
On the local scene he played for the Malteenoes Sports Club and made his first-class debut for British Guiana against Barbados at Bourda in the 1925 Inter-colonial tournament.
In his first outing, he fell for 14 in the only innings he batted and took a solitary wicket for 62 runs as he played an insignificant part in his team’s massive eight-wicket victory.
In 1927, in only his third regional match, he was promoted to open the innings and was shifted up and down the order throughout his first-class career.
In fact, his highest first-class score – an unbeaten first innings 89 against Barbados at Bourda in 1929 was made at number six. In the second innings he was sent in at number four in the order and accumulated 12 runs in another emphatic Guyana win.
When the English visited the region in 1930 for their first Test series in these parts, Jones was selected for the third Test at Bourda after playing for the national team against the MCC twice in a couple of weeks.
His inclusion in the final eleven for the Bourda Test was not mainly because he had compiled a few useful scores in recent first-class games but was primarily to further the policy of the authorities to use several players from the host territory in order to keep the expenses at a minimum. 
West Indies romped to a comprehensive 289-run, first-ever Test match victory, Jones’ contribution to the cause was a mere pittance.
He entered at number nine and reached six in the first innings and was not one of the four bowlers used in England’s meagre initial knock of 145.
In the second time round he scraped a couple from number eleven and was the seventh of the eight bowlers employed with figures of 10-7-5-0. He did manage, however, to clutch two catches.
From hereon he played rather infrequently but when the English returned for their second trip to the Caribbean in 1935 he was involved in the first three of the four Test matches.
In a low-scoring affair in the first Test in Barbados, Jones only got a chance in the first innings in which he made three, batting in the middle. In the West Indies’ second outing he did not feature at all although the declaration came at 51 for six. As a bowler he was not used in either innings.
In the second match in Port-of-Spain he opened in both innings and promptly made his highest Test score of 19 in each innings.  He was the ninth bowler employed and even then he only sent down two overs in the entire game as West Indies won to square the series.
History was created in this particular match, since in partnering Cyril Christiani at the start of the innings, it was the first time two Guyanese had opened for the West Indies.
In his final Test at Bourda he had scores of six and eight and was used for a paltry five overs in the drawn encounter.
He continued playing intermittently for four additional years and engaged himself in 27 first-class games all told.
Jones died in his homeland in December, 1959.
RECORD
TESTS: 4 RUNS: 63 AVG: 9.00       
HS: 19 v England, Trinidad 1935
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