John Ross Thompson (10 May 1918 – 15 June 2010) was an English amateur cricketer, rackets player and schoolteacher.
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| Full name | John Ross Thompson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 May 1918 Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 15 June 2010 (aged 92) Marlborough, Wiltshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off-spin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1938 to 1939 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1938 to 1954 | Warwickshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Life and career
editThompson was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, and was educated at Tonbridge School in Kent and at St John's College, Cambridge.[1] A right-handed batsman, he was regarded as a potential Test player during his two years in the Cambridge University team in 1938 and 1939, Wisden remarking that he batted in "very correct style" with "the makings of a brilliant batsman".[2] However, World War II intervened, and after the war he concentrated on his career as a mathematics and physics teacher at Marlborough College, appearing occasionally for Warwickshire during the school holidays.[2] In 1949, after playing his first match in mid-August, he scored 609 runs in first-class cricket at an average of 60.90, putting him sixth in the national averages.[2][3]
He played 36 matches of Minor Counties cricket with Wiltshire from 1955 to 1963.[4] He toured Canada in 1951 and North America in 1959 with the Marylebone Cricket Club, tours that coincided with the English school holidays; he also managed the 1959 tour.[5]
Thompson was also a champion rackets player, winning the British amateur singles title five times and the doubles title 11 times. He also played squash for England.[2] At Marlborough, as well as teaching mathematics and physics, he was master in charge of rackets and cricket, and a housemaster.[6]
References
edit- ^ "John Thompson". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Obituaries", Wisden 2011, p. 202.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by John Thompson". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- ^ "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by John Thompson". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- ^ Silk, Dennis. "MCC in Canada 1959". Cricinfo. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- ^ "John Thompson". The Times. Retrieved 25 September 2021.