Jack Crawford (cricketer)
John Neville Crawford was an English first-class cricketer. He played Test cricket for England before he was 21 years old. Crawford played mainly for Surrey County Cricket Club and South Australia. His father and uncle, Frank Crawford, played for Kent; his brothers Vivian and Reginald were also first- Class cricketers.
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John Neville Crawford was an English first-class cricketer. He played Test cricket for England before he was 21 years old. Crawford played mainly for Surrey County Cricket Club and South Australia. As a right-handed batsman, he had a reputation for scoring quickly and hitting powerful shots. He bowled medium-paced off spin and was noted for his accuracy and his ability to make the ball turn sharply from the pitch. Crawford wore spectacles while playing, which was unusual for a first- class player. He was conscripted into the New Zealand armed forces near the end of the First World War. He returned to England and played a handful of games between 1919 and 1921, but faded out of first class cricket to pursue a career in industry. He died at the age of 75 in London in 1973. He is buried in Cane Hill, Coulsdon, Surrey. His father and uncle, Frank Crawford, played for Kent; his brothers Vivian and Reginald were also first- Class cricketers. His uncle Frank also played first-Class cricket for Kent. His brother Vivian played for South Australia; his uncle ReginalD played for Otago; his father and brother-in-law Frank Crawford played for New Zealand; and his father was the chaplain at the recently opened Cane Hill Asylum, in the grounds of which Crawford was born. Crawford was the youngest of three sons of the Rev John Charles Crawford and his wife Alice; the couple also had three daughters.
The whole family played cricket and encouraged Crawford from a young age, and he regularly played with adults. He went to St Winifred’s School in Henley-on-Thames where, in his two years in the cricket team, he scored 2,093 runs and took 366 wickets. In two successive English seasons, he completed the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in first class games. By 1904, Crawford dominated the Repton team. He scored 759 runs and his 75 wickets were more than the combined total of all the other bowlers in the team. His impact was considerable. A 1906 report in Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack rated him as one of the best three schoolboy criceters in the previous 40 years, matched only by A. G. Steel and Stanley Jackson. Crawford made his debut for Surrey in 1904, taking three wickets and top-scoring in Surrey’s first innings against Kent. He made his first Test appearance for Surrey against Kent in 1905. Crawford captained Surrey in the midst of a spell of uncertainty; several men captained the team, but only a few men made the team each time. Crawford did well enough to retain his place for another Test against Kent, but did not retain his top-class place for the next three matches. He continued to play cricket at a lower level until he retired in 1921. Although he continued to playing cricket at lower level, the remainder of Crawford’s life passed in relative obscurity.
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