Jack Durston

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Jack Durston
Personal information
Full name Frederick John Durston[1]
Born 11 July 1893
Clophill, England
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Norwood Green, England[2]
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast, offbreak
International information
National side
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class
Matches 1 386
Runs scored 8 3918
Batting average 8.00 11.90
100s/50s -/- -/6
Top score 6* 92*
Balls bowled 202 72124
Wickets 5 1329
Bowling average 27.19 22.03
5 wickets in innings - 72
10 wickets in match - 11
Best bowling 4/102 8/27
Catches/stumpings -/- 257/-
Source: [1]

Frederick John "Jack" Durston, born Clophill, Bedfordshire, on 11 July 1893 and died at Norwood Green, Ealing, on 8 April 1965, was a 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 in Marylebone's game against the all-conquering 1921 Australian cricket 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 with Patsy Hendren against Essex at Leyton that remained as a Middlesex record until 2011.[9]

Football career

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Jack Durston
Personal information
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1912 Bedford Town 5 (0)
Royal Engineers
Queens Park Rangers
1919–1921 Brentford 24 (1)
Northfleet
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Durston also played football as a goalkeeper for Royal Engineers, Queens Park Rangers, Brentford, Northfleet and Bedford Town.[6][10]

Personal life

Durston served with the Royal Engineers during the First World War.[2]

References

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