Jan Brittin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jan Brittin

cricketer

Date of Birth: 04-Jul-1959

Place of Birth: Kingston upon Thames, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 11-Sep-2017

Profession: cricketer

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Janette Ann Brittin (4 July 1959 – 11 September 2017), known as Jan Brittin, was an England cricketer who played 27 Tests and 63 ODIs between 1979 and 1998.
Her total of 1,935 runs is a Test record as are her five Test centuries.Brittin's one-day record of 2,121 runs stood until 2003 when Charlotte Edwards became England's leading one-day run-scorer during the 214-run defeat of Sri Lanka.
Edwards said "Jan was a very special player and it is a privilege to head the record table with someone like that".
Brittin holds the record for taking the most catches in Women's Cricket World Cup history (19).As a child, Brittin lived in Chessington, Surrey.
She represented English schools at athletics, and later became a rare triple international, in indoor hockey and indoor cricket as well as cricket.
She was well known for her feats of athleticism on the cricket field; her England team-mate Enid Bakewell has said that "One of the reasons they changed from playing in skirts to trousers was JB’s diving stops!"After retiring from the game in 1998 she became a teacher, but also coached at Surrey County Cricket Club.
She died of cancer aged 58.
In July 2019, Surrey County Cricket Club named a room in the members' pavilion in her honour.