Famous Cricketers No 84 - G.L.Jessop

Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 125. K.S.Ranjitsinhji’s XI v Philadelphians, Haverford, September 29, 30, October 2 (K.S.Ranjitsinhji’s XI won by an innings and 173 runs) b J.B.King 64 435 27 13 52 6 J.B.King b 156 A.M.Wood c A.E.Stoddart H.C.Thayer b J.H.Mason c C.Robson E.M.Cregar b W.P.O’Neill c B.J.T.Bosanquet 8 3 30 2 J.B.King c C.Robson 106 H.C.Thayer b 126. K.S.Ranjitsinhji’s XI v Philadelphians, Manheim, October (6), 7, 9, 10 (K.S.Ranjitsinhji’s XI won by an innings and 131 runs) c R.D.Brown b W.P.O’Neill 8 363 7 4 7 1 F.H.Bates b 85 9 5 14 2 A.W.Jones b 147 1 A.M.Wood c S.M.J.Woods SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Tour 2 2 0 72 64 36.00 - 1 1 Career 126 208 15 5117 171* 26.51 8 23 116 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Tour (5-ball) 51 25 103 11 6-52 9.36 1 - Career (6-ball) 144 45 } 8921 413 8-34 21.60 26 2 (5-ball) 3704 1107 1900 Gloucestershire were seventh equal in the Championship. Jessop, in the year after coming down from University, was appointed County captain before his 26th birthday. From this time, he captained Gloucestershire in every match he played for them until the end of 1912. Jessop finished top of the Gloucestershire batting averages and second in the bowling list. He was sixth in the national list of century makers. In 1876 W.G.Grace scored over 2,000 runs and took over 100 wickets, while captain of his county. Jessop provided the only other example of a county captain achieving these targets. He scored 2,210 runs at 40.10 and took 104 wickets at 21.00 each. He also held 26 catches. It was about this time that Jessop became a member of the London Stock Exchange. He currently ‘had rooms in Brunswick Square, London WC1’. From 1st May 1900 the over consisted of six balls. The match between London County and Surrey was played under the old five-ball law. Against Somerset at Bristol Jessop scored 52 out of 56 in 20 minutes with W.H.Hale for the 4th wicket. In June, Jessop gave an amazing display of hitting when Gloucestershire played a non-first-class match against the touring West Indian side. In an hour, Jessop made 157 out of 201 for the 6th wicket with C.L.Townsend. When the West Indies next toured this country in 1906, with first-class status, they did not play against Gloucestershire. Gilbert Jessop scored a century in each innings of a match on four occasions by 1911. At this date, only C.B.Fry had achieved this feat more often, ie five times. The first time Jessop achieved this was the most spectacular of the four. On the second day of the game against Yorkshire at Bradford, Jessop batting at no 7, scored 104 out of 153 before lunch. The innings included one 6 and 15 fours. On the third day, batting at no 6, he again made a hundred before lunch and was dismissed for 139 out of 186. This innings included 7 sixes and 14 fours. In the match, Jessop hit 8 sixes out of the ground and 7 fours clean over the boundary which would today count as 6. This makes 15 modern sixes in the match. No other batsman has scored two centuries before lunch on separate days of the same match. Despite these amazing displays of batting, Yorkshire won by 40 runs. Against Essex at Cheltenham, Jessop achieved his best bowling figures in an innings taking 8 for 29. In the following match, against Surrey, Jessop scored 54 out of 68 in 45 minutes to enable Gloucestershire to win with 5 minutes to spare. In the first innings of his last match of the season, Jessop hit one ball from A.Millward which struck the ornamental ‘MCC’ letters on the Grandstand side of the pavilion roof. Had the wicket been pitched centrally, the ball would have completely 19