Jack Heygate Nedham Foster (8 September 1905 – 16 November 1976) was an English army officer and cricketer. He was born at Rochester in Kent and educated at Harrow School.[1][2]
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| Full name | Jack Heygate Nedham Foster | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 September 1905 Rochester, Kent | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 16 November 1976 (aged 71) Edenbridge, Kent | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
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| 1930 | Kent | ||||||||||||||
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Foster played in the Harrow cricket XI in 1923 and made ten appearances for Kent County Cricket Club's Second XI in 1924–1925, scoring a century against Norfolk.[1][3] He attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, playing cricket against Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in July 1925,[1] before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Buffs in February 1926.[4]
Foster made two trial appearances for Kent in the 1930 County Championship. His first-class cricket debut came against Middlesex at Folkestone on 9 July and he played again in the county's following fixture against Surrey at Blackheath.[1] The trial was not a success and these were Foster's only first-class appearances.[3] He played twice for the Army team in 1934 against the Public Schools.[1] His Wisden obituary describes him as a "good stylist" who was "quick on his feet, with a beautiful pair of wrists" when playing at school.[3]
After retiring from the army with the rank of captain, Foster died at Edenbridge, Kent, in November 1976, aged 71.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Jack Foster, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-07-01. (subscription required)
- ^ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part Two: 1919–1939, p. 81. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-07-01.)
- ^ a b c d Foster, Captain Jack Heygate Nedham, Obituaries in 1976, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1977. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
- ^ Regular Forces, The London Gazette, p.886, 1926-02-05. Retrieved 2017-07-01.