Jarrod McCracken

Infobox rugby league biography
playername = Jarrod McCracken
fullname = Jarrod McCracken
nickname =


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position = Centre/2nd Row
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countryofbirth = NZL
height = convert|191|cm|ftin|abbr=on
weight = convert|104|kg|stlb|abbr=on
club1 = leagueicon|Bulldogs|16 Bulldogs
year1start = 1991
year1end = 1992
appearances1 = 28
tries1 = 7
goals1 = 0
fieldgoals1 = 0
points1 = 28
club2 = leagueicon|St Helens|size=16 St Helens
year2start = 1992
year2end = 1993
appearances2 = 21
tries2 = 5
goals2 = 0
fieldgoals2 = 0
points2 = 20
club3 = leagueicon|Bulldogs|16 Bulldogs
year3start = 1993
year3end = 1995
appearances3 = 52
tries3 = 17
goals3 = 0
fieldgoals3 = 0
points3 = 68
club4 = leagueicon|Parramatta Eels|16 Parramatta Eels
year4start = 1996
year4end = 1999
appearances4 = 75
tries4 = 16
goals4 = 0
fieldgoals4 = 0
points4 = 64
club5 = leagueicon|Wests Tigers|size=16 Wests Tigers
year5start = 2000
year5end =
appearances5 = 8
tries5 = 1
goals5 = 0
fieldgoals5 = 0
points5 = 4
teamA = leagueicon|New Zealand Kiwis|16 New Zealand
yearAstart = 1991
yearAend = 1999
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Jarrod McCracken is a New Zealand former rugby league player. He is a former captain of the New Zealand national rugby league team. McCracken played first grade club football in Australia for the Canterbury Bulldogs, Parramatta Eels and Wests Tigers (who he captained in their first season), and in England for St Helens RLFC. He is the son of Ken McCracken.

pear Tackle

Jarrod McCracken's football career came to a premature end in round 15 of the 2000 NRL competition in a game against the Melbourne Storm, when Storm players Stephen Kearney and Marcus Bai performed a dangerous spear tackle on him, inflicting a career ending neck injury. McCracken later successfully sued the Melbourne Storm and the two players involved for damages stemming from the lost income of his football career.

He has since become a prominent real estate developer in Australia, where his company conducted a major redevelopment of Townsville's CBD

External links

* [http://www.bulldogs.com.au/main.php?page=player&id=561 Bulldogs profile]
* [http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20808933-5006009,00.html Article in the Daily Telegraph]