Jack Gregory (cricketer)

Jack Gregory

Gregory, c. 1925
Personal information
Full name	Jack Morrison Gregory
Born	(1895-08-14)14 August 1895 North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	7 August 1973(1973-08-07) (aged 77) Bega, New South Wales, Australia
Batting	Left-handed
Bowling	Right arm fast
International information
National side	Australia
Test debut (cap 107)	17 December 1920 v England
Last Test	5 December 1928 v England
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1920/21–1928/29	New South Wales
Career statistics
Competition Test First-class Matches 24 129 Runs scored 1,146 5,659 Batting average 36.96 36.50 100s/50s 2/7 13/27 Top score 119 152 Balls bowled 5,582 22,014 Wickets 85 504 Bowling average 31.15 20.99 5 wickets in innings 4 33 10 wickets in match 0 8 Best bowling 7/69 9/32 Catches/stumpings 37/– 195/–
Source: CricketArchive, 1 February 2009

Jack Morrison Gregory (14 August 1895 – 7 August 1973) was an Australian cricketer.

As well as 129

At the Johannesburg Test in 1921 he scored a century from 67 balls in 70 minutes, which was at the time the fastest hundred in terms of both balls faced and minutes taken in the history of Test cricket. The record stood until 1985 when Viv Richards managed the feat with 56 balls but it remains the record for the fastest hundred in terms of minutes. His record of 15 catches in the 1920–21 Ashes series still stands as the record for the most catches by a fieldsman in a Test series.^[2]

Jack was the nephew of two of the very early