Jack Board, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jack Board

Cricket player of England.

Date of Birth: 23-Feb-1867

Place of Birth: Clifton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 15-Apr-1924

Profession: cricket umpire, cricketer

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Jack Board

  • John Henry Board (23 February 1867 – 15 April 1924) was an English cricketer who played in six Tests from 1899 to 1906. Jack Board was a wicketkeeper and a right-handed batsman who started out as a tail-ender but developed into a useful player who often opened the innings for his county, Gloucestershire.
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  • Grace out of Bristol club cricket for the South v North match at Lord's in 1891, Board went straight into the Gloucestershire side afterwards and stayed there for 20 years.
  • In 1895, he set the county record for dismissals in a season, with 75.
  • As a batsman, he scored 214 in 210 minutes against Somerset in 1900, the highest by a Gloucestershire wicketkeeper, and in 1903 he shared in a sixth wicket partnership of 320 with Gilbert Jessop against Sussex at Hove, though his share was just 71, while Jessop scored 286.
  • The stand remains the county record for the sixth wicket. Board toured Australia in 1897-98 under A.E.
  • Stoddart without playing in the Tests, and twice toured South Africa, where he played his only Tests.
  • He went with Lord Hawke in 1898-99, and won his first two Test caps; he top-scored in his first Test innings, but then never exceeded the 29 he scored in that match.
  • In 1905-06, he played in four Test matches in the tour led by Plum Warner. Board was born in Clifton, Bristol.
  • A gardener by trade before he took to professional cricket, he became a well-known cricket coach at the end of his career.
  • From 1910, he went each winter to New Zealand, where he coached and played for Hawke's Bay, returning each English summer for a few games for Gloucestershire.
  • After the First World War, he became an umpire in English cricket and combined that with winters in South Africa coaching.
  • It was on the return trip from South Africa to England in 1924 aboard the Kenilworth Castle that he had a heart attack and died.
  • He was buried at sea.

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