Jack Rutherford

Infobox Historic Cricketer


nationality = Australian
country = Australia
country abbrev = AUS
name = Jack Rutherford
picture = Cricket_no_pic.pngbatting style = Right-hand bat
bowling style = Legbreak
tests = 1
test runs = 30
test bat avg = 30.00
test 100s/50s = 0/0
test top score = 30
test balls = 36
test wickets = 1
test bowl avg = 15.00
test 5s = 0
test 10s = 0
test best bowling = 1/11
test catches/stumpings = 0/0
FCs = 67
FC runs = 3367
FC bat avg = 31.76
FC 100s/50s = 6/15
FC top score = 167
FC balls = 3353
FC wickets = 29
FC bowl avg = 45.27
FC 5s = 0
FC 10s = 0
FC best bowling = 3/12
FC catches/stumpings = 53/0
debut date = 26 October
debut year = 1956
last date = 26 October
last year = 1956
source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/7411.html Cricinfo

John Walter Rutherford (born September 25, 1929, Bruce Rock, Western Australia) is an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1956. He was the first Western Australia cricketer to be picked for a "major" cricket tour and the first to win a Test cap for Australia while playing for his native state.

Jack Rutherford was a right-handed opening batsman, inclined to be defensive, and an occasional leg-break bowler who played for Western Australia from the 1952-53 season. Until 1956-57, Western Australia played the other Sheffield Shield state cricket teams only once a season, so Rutherford's record of five first-class centuries in his first four seasons was notable enough to win him selection for the 1956 Australian tour to England. In a damp summer, though, he was not a success, scoring only 640 runs at an average of fewer than 23 runs per innings. Only fleetingly, early in the tour, did he look likely to break into the Test team: against MCC at Lord's, he scored a dour 98 and shared a second wicket partnership of 282 with Neil Harvey, who scored 225. But when the team was announced for the first Test, the Australians reverted to the first-choice opening pair of Colin McDonald and Jim Burke.

On the way back to Australia from England, the team stopped in Pakistan for one Test match and in India for three games: in the second Indian match at Bombay (Mumbai), Rutherford won his solitary Test cap, replacing McDonald. He scored 30 and also took the wicket of Vijay Manjrekar, but McDonald returned for the third match and Rutherford never played Test cricket again.

He played state cricket for three more seasons, but after top-scoring in the match and achieving his career-best bowling performance for Western Australia against the 1958-59 MCC touring side, he was not selected for the Tests that season and retired at the end of it, reappearing for just a single match two years later.

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NAME=Rutherford, John Walter
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Cricketer
DATE OF BIRTH=September 25, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH=Bruce Rock, Western Australia
DATE OF DEATH=
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