{{short description|English cricketer and footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}} {{Use British English|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Jack Durston | image = Jack Durston, Brentford FC footballer, 1920.jpg | caption = Durston in 1920. |fullname = Frederick John Durston<ref>{{Cite book |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |last=Joyce |first=Michael |publisher=Tony Brown |year=2012 |isbn=978-1905891610 |location=Nottingham |page=88}}</ref> |birth_date = 11 July 1893 |birth_place = Clophill, England |death_date = {{death date and age|1965|4|8|1893|7|11|df=y}}<ref name=ESPN /> |death_place = Norwood Green, England<ref name=ESPN /> |height=6ft 5in<ref>{{Cite book |last=Haynes |first=Graham |title=A-Z Of Bees: Brentford Encyclopaedia |date=1998 |publisher=Yore Publications |isbn=1-874427-57-7 |location=Harefield |page=69}}</ref> | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm fast, off-break | role = | international = true | country = England | testdebutagainst = Australia | testdebutdate = 11 June | testdebutyear = 1921 | onetest = true | columns = 2 | column1 = Test | column2 = First-class | matches1 = 1 | matches2 = 386 | runs1 = 8 | runs2 = 3,918 | bat avg1 = 8.00 | bat avg2 = 11.90 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | 100s/50s2 = 0/6 | top score1 = 6* | top score2 = 92* | deliveries1 = 202 | deliveries2 = 72,124 | wickets1 = 5 | wickets2 = 1,329 | bowl avg1 = 27.19 | bowl avg2 = 22.03 | fivefor1 = 0 | fivefor2 = 72 | tenfor1 = 0 | tenfor2 = 11 | best bowling1 = 4/102 | best bowling2 = 8/27 | catches/stumpings1= 0/– | catches/stumpings2= 257/– | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/11963.html Cricinfo | date = 1 July | year = 2025 | module = {{Infobox football biography |embed = yes | header-color = #b0c4de |position = Goalkeeper |youthyears1= |youthclubs1= |years1 = 1912 |clubs1 = Bedford Town |caps1 = 5 |goals1 = 0 |years2 = |clubs2 = Royal Engineers |caps2 = |goals2 = |years3 = |clubs3 = Queens Park Rangers |caps3 = |goals3 = |years4 = 1919–1921 |clubs4 = Brentford |caps4 = 44 |goals4 = 0 |years5 = |clubs5 = Northfleet United |caps5 = |goals5 = }} }} '''Frederick John Durston''' (11 July 1893 – 8 April 1965) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex and England.<ref name="ESPN">{{Cite web|title = Jack Durston|url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/11963.html|website = Cricinfo|access-date = 15 October 2015}}</ref> He is a member of the Middlesex Hall of Fame.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Middlesex County Cricket Club|url = https://www.middlesexccc.com/squads/hall-of-fame/|website = www.middlesexccc.com|access-date = 15 October 2015}}</ref>
== Cricket career == A tall fast bowler with the ability to make the ball "break back" after pitching,<ref>{{Cite web|title = Wisden – Fred Durston|url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/page2/content/story/234606.html|website = Cricinfo|date = 26 January 2006|access-date = 15 October 2015}}</ref> Durston came to the fore in Middlesex's County Championship-winning seasons of 1920 and 1921,<ref name="ESPN" /> having played only a handful of matches before then. In both years, he took more than 100 wickets and after taking 11 wickets for MCC against the all-conquering 1921 Australian team led by Warwick Armstrong,<ref name="ESPN" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10076.html |title=The Home of CricketArchive |website=www.cricketarchive.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404081419/http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10076.html |archive-date=4 April 2016 |url-status=dead |access-date=15 October 2015}}</ref> he was picked for the second Test match on his home ground, Lord's.<ref name="Haynes" /> But though he took five wickets for 136 runs in the match,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/17617/scorecard/62527/england-vs-australia-2nd-test-australia-tour-of-england-1921 |title=2nd Test, Australia tour of England at Lord's, Jun 11-14 1921 |website=Cricinfo |access-date=28 September 2019}}</ref> he was dropped and never played for England again.<ref name="ESPN" />
Durston played for Middlesex until 1933,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/399/399.html |title=The Home of CricketArchive |website=www.cricketarchive.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709105831/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/399/399.html |archive-date=9 July 2017 |url-status=dead |access-date=15 October 2015}}</ref> turning increasingly to off-spin as he got older and stouter. In all, he took 1,314 wickets. His batting improved with age and in 1927 he shared an unbroken ninth-wicket partnership of 160 – scored in only 80 minutes – with Patsy Hendren against Essex at Leyton that remained as a Middlesex record until 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Berg and Murtagh put Middlesex on brink|url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2011/content/story/532390.html|website = Cricinfo|access-date = 15 October 2015}}</ref><ref name=LJ>"'Long Jack' played in only one Test", ''The Cricketer'', 7 May 1965, p. 31.</ref>
Durston ran an indoor cricket school at Acton in London from 1924 to 1958.<ref name=LJ/>
== Football career == Durston also played football as a goalkeeper for Royal Engineers, Queens Park Rangers, Brentford,<ref name="White">{{Cite book|title=100 Years Of Brentford|publisher=Brentford FC|year=1989|isbn=0951526200|editor-last=White|editor-first=Eric|pages=365–366}}</ref> Northfleet United and Bedford Town.<ref name="Haynes">{{Cite book |title=A-Z Of Bees: Brentford Encyclopaedia |last=Haynes |first=Graham |date=1998 |publisher=Yore Publications |isbn=1-874427-57-7 |pages=51–52}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxiZWRmb3Jkb2xkZWFnbGVzfGd4OjQ4NDllM2FmN2Y5Y2U2ZTA|title=Player list 1908-38X.xlsx|work=google.com|access-date=20 October 2015}}</ref>
The Hackney Gazette Newspaper reported that the Brentford registered goalkeeper Corporal Jack Durston made 2 appearances for Clapton Orient during the December holiday period of 1917 both against Chelsea. On Christmas Day at Chelsea in a 4–1 defeat and on Boxing Day a 2–1 defeat at Millfields, Homerton. Source: Neilson N. Kaufman, honorary historian of nearly fifty years to Leyton Orient FC.
== Personal life == Durston served with the Royal Engineers during the First World War.<ref name="ESPN" />
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