Arthur Jones (English cricketer)

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Arthur Jones
leg break
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 128)14 August 1899 v Australia
Last Test16 June 1909 v Australia
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1892–1914Nottinghamshire
1892–1893Cambridge University
1901London County
Career statistics
Competition Test First-class
Matches 12 472
Runs scored 291 22,935
Batting average 13.85 31.54
100s/50s 0/0 34/117
Top score 34 296
Balls bowled 228 18,116
Wickets 3 333
Bowling average 44.33 32.81
5 wickets in innings 0 8
10 wickets in match 0 1
Best bowling 3/73 8/71
Catches/stumpings 15/– 580/2
Source: Cricinfo, 11 November 2008
Rugby union career
Position(s)
Full Back
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1895–1910 Leicester 224 (563)

Arthur Owen Jones (16 August 1872 – 21 December 1914) was an English

cricketer, noted as an all-rounder, and former Captain of England. He was also a rugby union player for Leicester at full back or three quarter.[1]

Early life

Jones was born in 1872 in Shelton, Nottinghamshire, and educated at Bedford Modern School and Jesus College, Cambridge.[2]

Cricket career

Jones played for

Wisden Cricketer of the Year
in 1900.

Jones was the first substitute to keep wicket in a Test match, when he did so against Australia at The Oval in 1905.[3] He was a brilliant, sometimes impetuous, opening batsman and a leg-break and googly bowler. In 1903 he made what was then the highest-ever score by a Nottinghamshire batsman, scoring an unbeaten 296 against Gloucestershire at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. Jones played 12 Test matches for England, but lost the two games he captained. He led Nottinghamshire to the County Championship in 1907 and was captain of the 1907/08 England tour to Australia. But he only appeared in two matches because of illness. He remained captain of Nottinghamshire until a few months before his death from tuberculosis, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire.

Rugby career

Jones made 15 appearances for

Moseley in 1903.[4]

Between 1906 and 1912 he refereed 5 rugby internationals, including

France's first test victory against Scotland
in 1911.

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-9930213-0-5
    .
  2. ^ "Jones, Arthur Owen (JNS891AO)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ "The limpet". ESPN Cricinfo. 29 July 2008. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  4. ISBN 978-0-9930213-0-5
    .

External reference
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Tip Foster
English national cricket captain

1907–1908 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Nottinghamshire County cricket captain
1900–1914 		Succeeded by


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