Jack MacBryan

John Crawford William MacBryan (22 July 1892 – 14 July 1983) was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Somerset and made one almost imperceptible appearance in a Test match for England.^[1][2] MacBryan was also a field hockey international and won a gold medal at the 1920 Olympic Games.^[3][4]

Jack MacBryan
Born	(1892-07-22)22 July 1892 Box, Wiltshire, England
Died	14 July 1983(1983-07-14) (aged 90) Cambridge, England
Field hockey career Medal record Men's Field Hockey Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 1920 Antwerp Team competition
Cricket information
Batting	Right-handed
International information
National side	England
Only Test (cap 221)	26 July 1924 v South Africa
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1911–1936	Somerset
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class Matches 1 206 Runs scored – 10,322 Batting average – 29.49 100s/50s –/– 18/48 Top score – 164 Catches/stumpings –/– 128/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 3 May 2011

Biography

MacBryan was educated at Exeter School, where he played cricket for the school and was captain in 1911. After school he joined the Somerset Light Infantry. In 1914, a month after the outbreak of World War I, he was wounded and captured at the battle of Le Cateau, and he was a prisoner for the rest of the war.^[5] After the war he went up to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he won his blue for cricket in 1920.^[6]

An amateur and a right-hand batsman, MacBryan was the leading Somerset batsman in the years after the World War I and was called up for the Old Trafford Test match against the South Africans in 1924. But the match was ruined by rain, and MacBryan remains the only Test cricketer who neither batted, bowled nor dismissed anyone in the field (where he spent 66.5 overs). His chance never came again.^[1]

At the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, he represented Great Britain at the hockey tournament.^[7]

He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1925.

See also

• One Test Wonder