Jack MacBryan
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| Born | John Crawford William MacBryan 22 July 1892 Box, Wiltshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 14 July 1983 (aged 90) Cambridge, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Only Test (cap 221) | 26 July 1924 v South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1911–1936 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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John "Jack" Crawford William MacBryan (22 July 1892 – 14 July 1983) was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Somerset and made one almost imperceptible appearance in a Test match for England.[1] MacBryan was also a field hockey international and won a gold medal at the 1920 Olympic Games with the Great Britain and Ireland team.[2]
MacBryan was educated at Exeter School, where he played cricket for the school and was captain in 1911. After school he joined the Somerset Light Infantry. In 1914, a month after the outbreak of World War I, he was wounded and captured at the battle of Le Cateau, and he was a prisoner for the rest of the war.[3] After the war he went up to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he won his blue for cricket in 1920.[4]
An amateur and a right-hand batsman, MacBryan was the leading Somerset batsman in the years after the World War I and was called up for the Old Trafford Test match against the South Africans in 1924. But the match was ruined by rain, and MacBryan remains the only Test cricketer who neither batted, bowled nor dismissed anyone in the field (where he spent 66.5 overs). His chance never came again.[1]
He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1925.
See also
References
- ^ a b Frindall, Bill (2009). Ask Bearders. BBC Books. pp. 189–190. ISBN 978-1-84607-880-4.
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- ^ "J. C. W. Macbryan". The Times. No. 61586. London. 16 July 1983. p. 10. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
- ^ "Cricket". The Times. No. 42416. London. 21 May 1920. p. 7. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
External links
- Jack MacBryan at ESPNcricinfo
- dataOlympics profile for field hockey
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