Jack Durston
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| Full name | Frederick John Durston[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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11 July 1893 Clophill, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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8 April 1965 (aged 71)[2] Norwood Green, England[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast, offbreak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Frederick John "Jack" Durston, born Clophill, Bedfordshire, on 11 July 1893 and died at Norwood Green, Ealing, on 8 April 1965, was a cricketer who played for Middlesex and England.[2] 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,[2] having played only a handful of matches before then. In both years, he took more than 100 wickets and after taking 11 wickets in Marylebone's game against the all-conquering 1921 Australian cricket team led by Warwick Armstrong,[2][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.[2]
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 with Patsy Hendren against Essex at Leyton that remained as a Middlesex record until 2011.[9]
Football career
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| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1912 | Bedford Town | 5 | (0) |
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| 1919–1921 | Brentford | 44 | (0) |
| Northfleet United | |||
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Durston also played football as a goalkeeper for Royal Engineers, Queens Park Rangers, Brentford,[10] Northfleet United and Bedford Town.[6][11]
Personal life
Durston served with the Royal Engineers during the First World War.[2]
References
- ↑ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 88. ISBN 190589161X.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Jack Durston". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
- ↑ "Middlesex County Cricket Club". www.middlesexccc.com. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
- ↑ "Wisden - Fred Durston". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
- ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
- 1 2 Haynes, Graham (1998). A-Z Of Bees: Brentford Encyclopaedia. Yore Publications. pp. 51–52. ISBN 1 874427 57 7.
- ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
- ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
- ↑ "Berg and Murtagh put Middlesex on brink". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
- ↑ White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. p. 365-366. ISBN 0951526200.
- ↑ "Player list 1908-38X.xlsx". google.com. Retrieved 20 October 2015.