testdebutagainst deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings testdebutfor year birth_date tenfor bowling country lasttestfor death_place fivefor batting image name lasttestyear fullname birth_place column international testdebutdate lasttestagainst source date runs testdebutyear wickets lasttestdate s/s matches article_title
england 2,302 38,396 17 november 1900 2 4/0 91/0 australia 1887 21 june 1867 1 11 left-arm medium fast australia england england durban , south africa 6 63 left-handed batsman -lrb- lhb -rrb- j. j. ferris 001.jpg john ferris 1892 john james ferris sydney , australia tests first-class true 28 january south africa http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/5225.html 1867 6 21 y 114 4,264 1887 61 812 22 march 0/0 1/15 10 198 j. j. ferris

j. j. ferris

john james ferris -lrb- 21 may 1867 in sydney -- 17 november 1900 in durban -rrb- , a left-arm swing bowler , was one of the few cricketers to play test cricket for more than one country .
born in sydney , australia , ferris made his first-class debut for new south wales against alfred shaw 's touring english team on his home ground in 1886/87 .
he took seven wickets in the match , including five in the second innings , and after several more good displays was selected for the first test , also at sydney .
the england first innings was a disaster as they collapsed to what remains their lowest test total of 45 all out , ferris bowling unchanged with charlie turner , but despite his nine wickets in the game england , inspired by billy barnes ' second-innings 6 -- 28 , scraped to a 13-run win .
ferris took another nine-wicket haul in the second test , but again england were victorious , though in the only test of the 1887/88 tour he could manage `` only '' six as the englishmen came out on top yet again .
he went with the australians to england in 1888 , and at lord 's for the first time in his career played in a winning test side , his partnership with turner accounting for no less than eighteen england wickets as australia recorded a 61-run win .
the ashes remained in england , however , as the home side won the other two tests .
in 1889 ferris was named as one of the first wisden cricketers of the year .
he went to england again in 1890 , taking 13 wickets in another series defeat and no less than 186 in the season as a whole , but then moved there permanently , playing a single test for his adopted country against south africa in 1891/92 .
coincidentally , his former australian team-mate billy murdoch also made his first england appearance in this match , which was not given test status until some time later .
ferris ' performance helped crush the home side by an innings and 189 runs , but it was to prove his final international appearance .
he had taken 61 test wickets at an average of just 12.70 ; only george lohmann had a better career average .
ferris played several seasons of county cricket -lrb- 1892 -- 1895 -rrb- with gloucestershire , for whom he scored his only hundred in 1893 but was otherwise something of a failure .
at the end of his career , he appeared in a single sheffield shield match for south australia in 1895/96 , opening the batting but making nought , then finally in 1897/98 in two more games for new south wales .
in his last match he made a half-century but did not bowl a single ball .
ferris ' end was a tragic one : he enlisted in the british army for the second boer war , but contracted typhoid and died at durban , south africa at the age of 33 .
