Jack Kerr (cricketer)
Jack Kerr in 1953
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John Lambert Kerr | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
28 December 1910 Dannevirke, New Zealand |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 27 May 2007 (aged 96) Christchurch, New Zealand |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| International information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National side |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Test debut (cap 19) | 27 June 1931 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 24 July 1937 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career statistics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Source: Cricinfo, 1 April 2017
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Lambert Kerr CNZM OBE (28 December 1910 – 27 May 2007) was a New Zealand cricketer who played seven Tests for the New Zealand cricket team before the Second World War. He was the second oldest surviving Test cricketer at the date of his death, 10 days younger than fellow countryman Eric Tindill, and the third longest-lived Test cricketer, after Tindill and Francis MacKinnon.
Kerr was born in Dannevirke in the Manawatu-Wanganui district in the south of the North Island. His father encouraged him to take up cricket. He studied at Wanganui Technical College, where he was coached by Stewie Dempster. A solid opening batsman, with a technique based on a sound defence and scoring shots off his pads, he began to play in the Hawke Cup for Wanganui aged 15, helping his side to win the competition in his second year.
He moved to Christchurch on the South Island to take up a job as an accountant, and he played for Canterbury in the Plunket Shield in 1929–30 and 1930–31.
He was selected to play for the New Zealand cricket team on its tour to England in 1931. He had mixed results in the Tests, scoring 2 and 0 in the 1st Test at Lord's and 34 and 28 in the 2nd Test at the Oval, and was dropped for the 3rd Test at Old Trafford, but was more successful in the matches against the counties, scoring a total of 804 runs during a damp summer, at an average of 22.97. He played in one Test against the touring South African cricket team in 1932, scoring 0 and 3. He played his fourth Test against the touring England team in 1933, who were returning from the controversial Bodyline tour to Australia, making 59, his top Test score and only Test half-century. He was dominant in first class cricket in his native country, and made his highest first-class score the same year, reaching 196 playing for Canterbury against Wellington.
...
Wikipedia