Lives in Cricket No 22 - Jack Mercer

138 Appendix Career Statistics First-Class Cricket: Batting and Fielding M I NO R HS Ave 100 50 Ct 1919 1 2 0 9 8 4.50 - - 1 1920 9 11 2 58 13 6.44 - - 3 1921 2 4 1 7 5 2.33 - - 1 1922 1 2 0 24 17 12.00 - - - 1923 6 10 2 110 48 13.75 - - 1 1924 21 35 7 375 57* 13.39 - 1 15 1925 27 46 6 560 57 14.00 - 1 8 1926 29 40 6 506 46 14.88 - - 13 1926/27 14 12 5 76 31* 10.85 - - 9 1927 25 31 2 266 40 9.17 - - 7 1928 26 34 5 426 58 14.68 - 2 9 1928/29 2 3 2 6 4* 6.00 - - 1 1929 30 47 8 510 49 13.07 - - 12 1930 31 49 3 563 55 12.23 - 2 4 1931 29 39 6 407 62* 12.33 - 2 16 1932 29 42 5 415 53 11.21 - 1 5 1933 26 36 6 365 45 12.16 - - 6 1934 24 27 3 274 72 11.41 - 1 5 1935 28 44 5 397 47 10.17 - - 8 1936 27 37 10 172 20 6.37 - - 11 1937 22 25 9 214 35 13.37 - - 3 1938 25 31 12 179 27 9.42 - - 1 1939 22 21 7 157 45* 11.21 - - 5 1947 1 0 - - - - - - - Totals 457 628 112 6076 72 11.77 - 10 144 Notes: All Mercer’s first-class cricket was played in Great Britain, except for 1926/27 when he toured India and 1928/29 when he toured Jamaica. He was dismissed 328 times caught (64%), 158 times bowled (31%), 16 times lbw (3%), nine times stumped (2%) and five times run out (1%). The bowlers who dismissed him most often were C.W.L.Parker 15 times, and J.C.White 13 times, both left-arm slow. He played for Glamorgan in 412 matches, scoring 5,730 runs at 11.98, and taking 123 catches.