John Grant (cricketer)
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| Full name | John William Grant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 February 1941 Essendon, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | The General | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1964–65 to 1968–69 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 26 August 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John William Grant (born 9 February 1941, Essendon, Victoria, Australia) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Victoria from 1964 to 1969.
Career with Victoria
[edit]Short and strongly built, John Grant was a bustling opening bowler and hard-hitting lower-order batsman who played 43 matches for Victoria in five seasons. He made his first-class debut in the first match of the 1964–65 season against Western Australia, taking three wickets and, going in to bat when Victoria were 148 for 7 and still trailing, scoring 64 in the second innings to help salvage a draw.[1] A few weeks later, against Queensland, he took 4 for 50 in the first innings and scored 61, again at number nine.[2] He finished the season with 16 wickets at an average of 30.18[3] and 171 runs at 19.00.[4]
He was less successful in 1965–66, but he did take 5 for 79 and 3 for 57 in Victoria's victory over New South Wales.[5] His most successful season was 1966–67, when he made 252 runs at 31.50 and took 29 wickets at 24.58, and Victoria won the Sheffield Shield. He took 5 for 89 against New South Wales in Melbourne,[6] then in the final match of the season in Sydney, after the first three days had been rained out, he bowled unchanged throughout the New South Wales innings to take 6 for 37 off 17 overs to dismiss New South Wales for 93 and give Victoria an easy run-chase for first-innings points.[7]
He made 292 runs at 26.54 and took 25 wickets at 30.00 in 1967–68. In 1968–69 he took 5 for 25 and 3 for 55 against Queensland,[8] and two weeks later against South Australia he hit his highest score of 70 in a seventh-wicket partnership of 133 with Paul Sheahan that took Victoria to a first-innings lead.[9] He finished the season with 287 runs at 22.07 and 21 wickets at 31.42.
Other cricket
[edit]Grant played 191 matches for Essendon in Melbourne district cricket from 1959–60 to 1976–77, playing in two premiership sides and winning the Jack Ryder Medal twice. He was appointed captain-coach for the 1969–70 season and immediately led Essendon to the premiership. He served as a Victorian selector from 1992 to 1998.[10] He has also been a successful coach at The Peninsula School in Mount Eliza.[11]
He had three productive seasons as a professional for Rawtenstall in the Lancashire League. In 1967 he took 95 wickets at an average of 8.41 and made 275 runs at 17.26, and Rawtenstall finished second;[12] in 1968 he took 125 wickets at 9.98 and made 506 runs at 28.23, and Rawtenstall finished second again;[13] and in 1970 he took 89 wickets at 10.49 and made 583 runs at 34.29, and Rawtenstall finished third.[14]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Western Australia v Victoria 1964–65
- ^ Victoria v Queensland 1964–65
- ^ John Grant bowling by season
- ^ John Grant batting by season
- ^ New South Wales v Victoria 1965–66
- ^ Victoria v New South Wales 1966–67
- ^ New South Wales v Victoria 1966–67
- ^ Victoria v Queensland 1968–69
- ^ Victoria v South Australia 1968–69
- ^ Grant, John William Archived 3 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- ^ The Peninsula School, Sporting achievements Archived 3 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- ^ Wisden 1968, p. 750.
- ^ Wisden 1969, p. 746.
- ^ Wisden 1971, p. 784.
External links
[edit]- John Grant at CricketArchive (subscription required)
- John Grant at ESPNcricinfo