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Full name | Frederick John Durston[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 11 July 1893 Clophill, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 8 April 1965 71)[2] Norwood Green, England[2] | (aged|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast, off-break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Frederick John Durston (11 July 1893 – 8 April 1965) was an English first-class 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 for MCC against the all-conquering 1921 Australian 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 – scored in only 80 minutes – with Patsy Hendren against Essex at Leyton that remained as a Middlesex record until 2011.[9][10]
Durston ran an indoor cricket school at Acton in London from 1924 to 1958.[10]
Football career
Durston also played football as a goalkeeper for Royal Engineers, Queens Park Rangers, Brentford,[11] Northfleet United and Bedford Town.[6][12]
The Hackney Gazette Newspaper reported that the Brentford registered goalkeeper Corporal Jack Durston made 2 appearances for Clapton Orient during the December holiday period of 1917 both against Chelsea. On Christmas Day at Chelsea in a 4–1 defeat and on Boxing Day a 2–1 defeat at Millfields, Homerton. Source: Neilson N. Kaufman, honorary historian of nearly fifty years to Leyton Orient FC.
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 978-1905891610.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Jack Durston". Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
- ↑ "Middlesex County Cricket Club". www.middlesexccc.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
- ↑ "Wisden – Fred Durston". Cricinfo. 26 January 2006. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
- ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive". www.cricketarchive.com. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
- 1 2 Haynes, Graham (1998). A-Z Of Bees: Brentford Encyclopaedia. Yore Publications. pp. 51–52. ISBN 1-874427-57-7.
- ↑ "2nd Test, Australia tour of England at Lord's, Jun 11-14 1921". Cricinfo. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive". www.cricketarchive.com. Archived from the original on 9 July 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
- ↑ "Berg and Murtagh put Middlesex on brink". Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
- 1 2 "'Long Jack' played in only one Test", The Cricketer, 7 May 1965, p. 31.
- ↑ White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. pp. 365–366. ISBN 0951526200.
- ↑ "Player list 1908-38X.xlsx". google.com. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
External links
- Jack Durston at ESPNcricinfo
- Jack Durston at Cricket Archive