John Jameson (cricketer)

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John Jameson
Personal information
Full name
John Alexander Jameson
Born (1941-06-30) 30 June 1941 (age 82)
Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
Off-break
RelationsThomas Jameson (brother)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC
Matches 4 3 361
Runs scored 214 60 18,941
Batting average 26.75 20.00 33.34
100s/50s 0/1 0/0 33/90
Top score 82 28 240*
Balls bowled 42 12 7275
Wickets 1 0 89
Bowling average 17.00 – 42.49
5 wickets in innings 0 – 0
10 wickets in match 0 – 0
Best bowling 1/17 – 4/22
Catches/stumpings 0/– 0/– 255/1
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 15 October 2022

John Alexander Jameson MBE (born 30 June 1941)[1] is a former English cricketer who played in four Test matches and three One Day Internationals for the England cricket team between 1971 and 1975. Jameson played for Warwickshire County Cricket Club from 1960 until 1976.

Primarily a hard-hitting top-order batsman, Jameson was also a useful occasional off-spin or medium-pace bowler. A capable slip fielder, he occasionally kept wicket. On one occasion, Jameson was a member of a Warwickshire team that boasted three international wicket-keepers, but he had to keep wicket nonetheless: Deryck Murray was injured, Rohan Kanhai had given up keeping, and A.C. Smith had been selected for his bowling.[2]

Cricket correspondent, Colin Bateman, noted, "Born into the era of Boycott, Edrich and Amiss, John Jameson had precious few opportunities to break into Test cricket. A brave, attacking opener who was at his best trying to hammer fast bowling out of the ground, he played a couple of Tests in 1971 but did not help his cause by being run out in three of his first four innings".[1] He is unique in being the only England cricketer to be run out in both innings of a Test match. In addition, he is the only Test cricketer ever to be similarly dismissed in three successive Test innings.[3]

Jameson was diagnosed with

Diabetes mellitus type 2
in 2004.

Early life and career

Jameson made his Test debut against

India in 1971,[4] scoring 82 in his second Test.[5] His only Test tour was the West Indies tour of 1973–74, on which he was selected for one One Day International and two Tests, without personal success with the bat.[1] He also played two ODIs during the 1975 Cricket World Cup
.

Jameson scored 240 not out, his highest first-class score, against Gloucestershire at Edgbaston in 1974, sharing with Kanhai (who scored 213 not out) an unbeaten second-wicket partnership of 465, which remains a record for the second wicket in County cricket.[6]

His brother Thomas Jameson appeared for Warwickshire and Cambridge University in 1970.

Later career

Being born in the sub-continent, Jameson always took a special interest in South Asian cricket. He visited

Bangladesh
cricket as a coach and helped in the early development of cricket in Bangladesh.

Jameson was a first-class

Daryll Hair tribunal in 2007 as an expert witness.[7]

He coached at

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to cricket.[8]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 1-869833-21-X
    .
  2. ^ Australia v England, Champions Trophy SF 2009, Commentary
  3. ISBN 978-1-84607-880-4
    .
  4. ^ England v India, 2nd Test, 1971
  5. ^ England v India, 3rd Test, 1971
  6. ^ Warwickshire v Gloucestershire, 1974
  7. ^ ESPNcricinfo: Reverse swinging in the court
  8. ^ "No. 59282". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2009. p. 18.


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