Jack Iddon, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJack Iddon
Cricket player of England.
Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1902
Date of Death: 17-Apr-1946
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Jack Iddon
- John ("Jack") Iddon (8 January 1902 in Mawdesley, Croston, near Chorley, Lancashire – 17 April 1946 in Madeley, Staffordshire) was an English cricketer who played in five Tests in 1935. Jack Iddon was a right-handed middle-order batsman who hit the ball hard and a slow left-arm bowler who achieved a lot of turn on wearing pitches.
- He was an integral part of successful Lancashire teams from 1926 to 1939, passing 1,000 runs in a season 13 times – every year except 1927 – and going on to 2,381 runs in 1934. His best bowling season was 1932 when he took 80 wickets.
- In later years, he was inclined to be expensive and bowled less, but his best bowling performance of 9 for 42 in an innings in the Roses match against Yorkshire came in 1937, a season when he took only 28 wickets in all matches. Iddon's Test cricket was confined to the 1934-35 tour to the West Indies, when he played in all four Test matches, and one match against the South African cricket team in 1935.
- In the Caribbean, he came second in the England batting averages despite never batting higher than No 7 in any innings; with George Paine and Eric Hollies in the side, his opportunities for bowling were limited to just seven overs.
- In the first match of the 1935 series, he again batted at No 7, scored 29 and bowled four overs for three runs.
- But he was dropped and never regained a Test place. Iddon played for Lancashire in a couple of the non-first-class matches arranged after the end of the Second World War in Europe in 1945, but was not intending to resume full-time cricket in 1946, though the county hoped he would appear on occasion as an amateur and had appointed him team captain.
- He was working as a technical representative for a company making brake linings in Manchester, and he was on his way home from a business meeting at Rolls-Royce in Crewe when he was killed in a road accident just before the start of the 1946 season.
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