Correct as of the end of the 2011 Season

James made his Somerset debut in 2003, playing in nine National League games and the Championship match with Derbyshire at Taunton.

His second Championship appearance was against Durham at Taunton in 2004 and he marked it by scoring 101 and 72 against an attack including Shoaib Akhtar. In the same season he represented England Under 19s against Bangladesh, scoring 210 in the second ‘Test’ on his home ground of Taunton. The previous winter he had played in the Under 19 World Cup in Bangladesh.

Voted ‘Most Promising Young Cricketer of the Year’ in 2004 by the Cricket Society, James had a testing start to both 2005 and 2006 but emerged to become the youngest Somerset player to score a double century when he made 227* in the final championship match of 2006 against Northamptonshire.

He carried this form into 2007 and passed 1000 first class runs for the first time, hitting four centuries in the process. James’ good progress and winning his county cap. In the 2007-8 winter he was rewarded with a place at the National Academy working with the England Development squad.

James was a key member of the victorious Twenty20 Cup team in 2005, making useful contributions with both bat and ball.

2008 and 2009 were not so successful although in the latter he became the sixth Somerset player to score a triple century.

2010 has been his most successful and consistent season and he hit seven first class centuries and made runs in every format of the game. He was rewarded with a place in the England Performance squad to Australia during the winter of 2010 and went onto captain the England Lions on their tour to the West Indies during the winter of 2011 and also appeared for them during last summer.

Somerset Career Record

Batting and Fielding Averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	CT	ST
First Class	126	204	15	8033	303*	42.50	21	39	100	0
List A	138	131	21	3600	151	32.73	4	15	46	0
Twenty20	100	95	14	1833	77*	22.63	0	8	41	0

Bowling Averages

	Overs	M	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Ave
First Class	79	5	411	5	2/39	82.20
List A	19	0	141	5	2/26	28.20
Twenty20	24.1	0	247	10	3/24	24.70