testdebutagainst deliveries death_date columns testcap catches/stumpings year birth_date alt bowling tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting image name lasttestyear caption fullname birth_place column international role testdebutdate lasttestagainst source date runs testdebutyear wickets lasttestdate s/s matches article_title
south africa 2,203 35,423 2 may 1963 2 146 13/0 162/0 1904 1919 -- 21 1906 -- 09 1909 -- 14 1914 -- 15 1 december 1886 a cricketer holding a cricket ball right arm medium , off spin 0 12 england epsom , surrey , england surrey south australia otago surrey 3 57 right-handed jack crawford.jpg jack crawford 1908 jack crawford in 1906 john neville crawford cane hill , surrey , england tests first-class true all-rounder 2 january australia http://cricketarchive.com/archive/players/0/284/284.html cricketarchive 1886 12 1 yes 469 9,488 1906 39 815 27 february 0/2 15/43 12 210 jack crawford -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

jack crawford -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

john neville `` jack '' crawford -lrb- 1 december 1886 -- 2 may 1963 -rrb- was an english first-class cricketer who played mainly for surrey and south australia .
an amateur , he played as an all-rounder .
as a right-handed batsman , crawford 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 .
unusually for a first-class cricketer , crawford wore spectacles while playing .
crawford established a reputation as an outstanding cricketer while still a schoolboy .
he played test cricket for england before he was 21 years old , and successfully toured australia with the marylebone cricket club -lrb- mcc -rrb- in 1907 -- 08 .
he played only 12 matches for england , although critics believed he had a great future in the sport and was a potential future england captain .
in two successive english seasons , he completed the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in first-class games .
a dispute over the composition of a surrey side chosen to play a high-profile game in 1909 , after several professional players were omitted for disciplinary reasons , led to an increasingly bitter argument between crawford and the surrey authorities .
crawford was told he had no future with the club , and moved to australia .
there , he worked as a teacher and continued his cricket career with south australia .
this arrangement had a controversial end , when he clashed with the south australian cricket association over money and moved to new zealand to play for otago .
that relationship also ended badly , and he left otago before being conscripted into the new zealand armed forces near the end of the first world war .
when he was demobilised , he returned to england and made his peace with surrey .
he played a handful of games between 1919 and 1921 but faded out of first-class cricket to pursue a career in industry .
in all first-class cricket , crawford scored 9,488 runs at an average of 32.60 and took 815 wickets at an average of 20.66 .
although he continued to play cricket at a lower level , the remainder of crawford 's life passed in relative obscurity .
