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James Gruijters

cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ23771332 ↗
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James Felix Mathieson Gruijters (born 9 August 1993) is a Dutch international cricketer who made his debut for the Dutch national side in June 2013. He is a right-handed middle-order batsman.

The younger brother of Tim Gruijters, who has also represented the Netherlands, Gruijters was born in The Hague, and plays his club cricket for Quick Haag. A former Dutch under-19s player, he made his senior debut for the Netherlands in the 2013 Yorkshire Bank 40, an English domestic competition. Later in the year, Gruijters was selected for an Intercontinental Cup fixture against Ireland, which held first-class status.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-08-09. For this dossier, James, Gruijters and cricketer is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “James Gruijters” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.