Jack Durston | |
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 Durston in 1920. | |
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11 July 1893 Clophill, England |
| Died |
8 April 1965 (aged 71)[1] Norwood Green, England[1] |
Frederick John Durston (born Clophill, Bedfordshire, on 11 July 1893 and died at Norwood Green, Ealing, on 8 April 1965) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex and England.[1] He is a member of the Middlesex Hall of Fame.[3]
Cricket career[]
A tall fast bowler with the ability to make the ball "break back" after pitching,[4] Durston came to the fore in Middlesex's County Championship-winning seasons of 1920 and 1921,[1] having played only a handful of matches before then. In both years, he took more than 100 wickets and after taking 11 wickets for MCC against the all-conquering 1921 Australian team led by Warwick Armstrong,[1][5] he was picked for the second Test match on his home ground, Lord's.[6] But though he took five wickets for 136 runs in the match,[7] he was dropped and never played for England again.[1]
Durston played for Middlesex until 1933,[8] turning increasingly to off-spin as he got older and stouter. In all, he took 1,314 wickets. His batting improved with age and in 1927 he shared an unbroken ninth-wicket partnership of 160 – scored in only 80 minutes – with Patsy Hendren against Essex at Leyton that remained as a Middlesex record until 2011.[9][10]
Durston ran an indoor cricket school at Acton in London from 1924 to 1958.[10]
Football career[]
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Durston also played football as a goalkeeper for Royal Engineers , Queens Park Rangers, Brentford,[11] Northfleet United and Bedford Town .[6][12]
The Hackney Gazette Newspaper reported that the Brentford registered goalkeeper Corporal Jack Durston made 2 appearances for Clapton Orient during the December holiday period of 1917 both against Chelsea. On Christmas Day at Chelsea in a 4–1 defeat and on Boxing Day a 2–1 defeat at Millfields, Homerton. Source: Neilson N. Kaufman, honorary historian of nearly fifty years to Leyton Orient FC.
Personal life[]
Durston served with the Royal Engineers during the First World War.[1]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Jack Durston". http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/11963.html. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
- ↑ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 88. ISBN 190589161X.
- ↑ "Middlesex County Cricket Club". http://www.middlesexccc.com/squads/hall-of-fame/. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
- ↑ "Wisden – Fred Durston". http://www.espncricinfo.com/page2/content/story/234606.html. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
- ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive". https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10076.html.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Haynes, Graham (1998). A-Z Of Bees: Brentford Encyclopaedia. Yore Publications. pp. 51–52. ISBN 1 874427 57 7.
- ↑ "2nd Test, Australia tour of England at Lord's, Jun 11-14 1921". https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/17617/scorecard/62527/england-vs-australia-2nd-test-australia-tour-of-england-1921.
- ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive". https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/399/399.html.
- ↑ "Berg and Murtagh put Middlesex on brink". http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2011/content/story/532390.html. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "'Long Jack' played in only one Test", The Cricketer, 7 May 1965, p. 31.
- ↑ White, Eric, ed (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. pp. 365–366. ISBN 0951526200.
- ↑ "Player list 1908-38X.xlsx". google.com. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxiZWRmb3Jkb2xkZWFnbGVzfGd4OjQ4NDllM2FmN2Y5Y2U2ZTA. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
External links[]
- Player profile: J from ESPNcricinfo
- Jack Durston at Cricket Archive
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