Jack Gregory
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| Batting style | Left-hand bat | |
| Bowling type | Right-arm fast | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 24 | 129 |
| Runs scored | 1146 | 5659 |
| Batting average | 36.96 | 36.50 |
| 100s/50s | 2/7 | 13/27 |
| Top score | 119 | 152 |
| Balls bowled | 5582 | 22014 |
| Wickets | 85 | 504 |
| Bowling average | 31.15 | 20.99 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 4 | 33 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 8 |
| Best bowling | 7/69 | 9/32 |
| Catches/stumpings | 37/0 | 195/0 |
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Test debut: 17 December 1920 |
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Jack Morrison Gregory (August 14, 1895, North Sydney, New South Wales - August 7, 1973, Bega, New South Wales) was an Australian cricketer.
As well as 129 first class matches for New South Wales he played in 24 Tests between 1920 and 1928. He was known mainly as a fearsome right-arm fast bowler but he also achieved a batting average of 36.50 and 1146 runs including two centuries, batting left-handed and gloveless. His best bowling was 7/69 in an innings and 8/101 in a match at the 1920/21 Test against England at the MCG.[1]
At the Johannesburg Test in 1921 he scored a century from 67 balls in 70 minutes, which was at the time the fastest hundred in the history of Test cricket. The record stood until 1985 when Viv Richards managed the feat with 56 balls. His record of 15 catches in the 1920–21 Ashes series still stands as the record for the most catches by a fieldsman in a Test series.[1]
Jack was the nephew of two of the very early Australian cricketers, Dave and Ned Gregory.
He was Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1922.
