deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date bowling tenfor country death_place club fivefor batting name fullname birth_place column source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls 882 22 february 1917 1 8 / & ndash ; 1908 1907 & ndash ; 1908 2010 17 june 1886 leg break & ndash ; england near kut , mesopotamia oxford university hampshire 1 right-handed robert jesson robert wilfred fairey jesson southampton , hampshire , england fc http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/15506.html cricinfo 1886 6 17 yes 198 21 & ndash ; / & ndash ; 15 robert jesson

robert jesson

robert wilfred fairey jesson -lrb- 17 june 1886 -- 22 february 1917 -rrb- was an english cricketer , a right-handed batsman who was a leg break bowler .
jesson was born in southampton , the son of solicitor 's clerk robert jesson .
he was educated at sherborne school , where he represented the school cricket team , and at merton college , oxford .
jesson made his first-class debut for hampshire against warwickshire in the 1907 county championship .
on debut he took his maiden and only first-class five wicket haul , with figures of 5/42 .
he played for hampshire in 11 first-class matches in 1907 .
in 1908 jesson played a single first-class match for oxford university against the marylebone cricket club .
he also played two first-class matches for hampshire against warwickshire and northamptonshire that year .
two years later in 1910 , jesson played his final first-class match for hampshire against sussex .
in his first-class career , he scored 198 runs at a batting average of 8.25 , with a high score of 38 .
with the ball he took 21 wickets at a bowling average of 25.14 .
all of his wickets came for hampshire .
jesson served in the first world war with the wiltshire regiment , where he held the rank of major .
jesson fought in the mesopotamian campaign , where on 22 february 1917 he was killed in action .
