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11288 79 2 55/0 0/0 1954 1 n/a right-arm offbreak english 8 1 right-handed batsman cricket_no_pic . png jack dyson 1964 first-class list a true http://www.cricketarchive.com/archive/players/29/29190/29190.html cricket archive 4433 66 1954 161 5 1/23 0/1 150 2 jack dyson

jack dyson

jack dyson -lrb- 8 july 1934 -- 22 november 2000 -rrb- was both an english first-class cricketer and a professional footballer .
he was born and died in oldham , lancashire .
he started his sporting career as a footballer and spent four seasons with manchester city during which time he played 62 matches and scored 26 goals .
one of those goals came in their 1956 fa cup final victory over birmingham .
after leaving football he concentrated on his cricketing career , which had already begun while he was with manchester city .
a right-handed batsman and handy offspinner , he made his first-class debut in 1954 , playing with lancashire .
he earned his lancashire cap two years later in 1956 , the same year that he had won his fa cup winner 's medal .
in that season he scored what would be his only first-class hundred , 118 not out against scotland .
he also played in an unusual victory over leicestershire as it was achieved without losing a wicket , with two opening partnerships of 166 and 66 between dyson and alan wharton enough to give a victory by 10 wickets .
dyson was a controversial figure throughout his career , he was a free spirit and it ended up costing him his job at lancashire .
in 1960 the lancashire committee charged him with `` a serious breach of discipline and an act of insubordination and insolence to the captain '' .
for the next two years dyson played with staffordshire and in league cricket .
in september 1962 the lancashire committee was overthrown and dyson returned to the county for two more seasons , but was released again at the end of the 1964 season .
