# Jack Hubble > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jack_Hubble > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jack_Hubble.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hubble > Source revision: 1331238077 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2026}} {{Use British English|date=February 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Jack Hubble | image = Jack Hubble.jpg | fullname = John Charlton Hubble | birth_date = {{Birth date|1881|2|10|df=yes}} | birth_place = [Wateringbury](/source/Wateringbury), [Kent](/source/Kent) | death_date = {{Death date and age|1965|2|26|1881|2|10|df=yes}} | death_place = [St Leonards-on-Sea](/source/St_Leonards-on-Sea), [Sussex](/source/Sussex) | batting = Right-handed | role = [Wicket-keeper](/source/Wicket-keeper) | club1 = [Kent](/source/Kent_County_Cricket_Club) | year1 = {{nowrap|1904–1929}} | family = [Harold Hubble](/source/Harold_Hubble) (nephew) | type1 = [FC](/source/First-class_cricket) | debutdate1 = 23 June | debutyear1 = 1904 | debutfor1 = Kent | debutagainst1 = [Gloucestershire](/source/Gloucestershire_County_Cricket_Club) | lastdate1 = 20 July | lastyear1 = 1929 | lastfor1 = [Marylebone Cricket Club](/source/Marylebone_Cricket_Club) (MCC) | lastagainst1 = [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy_cricket_team) | columns = 1 | column1 = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket) | matches1 = 360 | runs1 = 10,939 | bat avg1 = 23.57 | 100s/50s1 = 5/58 | top score1 = 189 | deliveries1 = 36 | wickets1 = 0 | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1 = 437/221 | date = 6 January | year = 2009 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/15015.html CricInfo }} '''John Charlton Hubble''' (10 February 1881 – 26 February 1965), known as '''Jack Hubble''', was an English professional [cricket](/source/cricket)er who played [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket) for [Kent County Cricket Club](/source/Kent_County_Cricket_Club) in the first half of the 20th century. He was a right-handed batsman and [wicket-keeper](/source/wicket-keeper) who played professionally for 25 years and was part of the Kent teams which won four [County Championship](/source/County_Championship)s before [World War I](/source/World_War_I).Carlaw, pp. 269–272. (Retrieved 21 December 2020.) ==Cricket career== Hubble joined [Kent](/source/Kent_County_Cricket_Club) as a First XI player [in 1904](/source/1904_English_cricket_season), making his debut against [Gloucestershire](/source/Gloucestershire_County_Cricket_Club) at the [Angel Ground](/source/Angel_Ground) in [Tonbridge](/source/Tonbridge) where he had been part of the Tonbridge Nursery, Kent's turn-of-the-century training ground for young professionals under Captain [William McCanlis](/source/William_McCanlis).[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30440/First-Class_Matches.html First-class matches played by Jack Hubble], CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 April 2016.{{sfn|Birley|1999|p=}} He played few matches for the First XI initially and was used mainly as a batsman, the wicket-keeping position being held by [Fred Huish](/source/Fred_Huish) in the years before the [First World War](/source/First_World_War).[http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/234625.html Hubble, John Charlton – Obituaries in 1966], ''[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack](/source/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack)'', 1966. Retrieved 8 April 2016.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30440/f_Batting_by_Season.html First-class batting and fielding in each season by Jack Hubble], CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 April 2016. He played nine times in the [1906 team](/source/Kent_County_Cricket_Club_in_1906) which won the County Championship for the first time in the club's history, but did not play more than ten games until 1910. Hubble played a more important part for Kent from 1910 to 1914, playing in 30 matches in 1913 as the County won the last of their four [County Championship](/source/County_Championship) titles of the [Golden Age of cricket](/source/Golden_Age_of_cricket). Huish retired after the 1914 season and when first-class cricket returned after the war Hubble became the first choice wicket-keeper.[https://kentcricket.co.uk/news/three-former-kent-greats-honoured-in-special-presentation Three former Kent greats honoured in special presentation], [Kent County Cricket Club](/source/Kent_County_Cricket_Club), 2 August 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2016. He continued to play regularly until the end of the [1926 County Championship](/source/1926_County_Championship) season when [Les Ames](/source/Les_Ames) succeeded him as the main wicket-keeper. Between them Huish, Hubble and Ames are considered the first in the line of great Kent wicket-keepers.Sengupta A (2013) [https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/alan-knott-ndash-arguably-the-greatest-wicketkeeper-ever-25010 Alan Knott: Arguably greatest wicketkeeper ever], Cricket Country, 9 April 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2016. The three men filled the role for Kent for half a century. thumb|Kent Cricket Team c1922 Hubble played ten times for Kent in the [1927 season](/source/1927_County_Championship), before playing for [MCC in South Africa](/source/English_cricket_team_in_South_Africa_in_1927%E2%80%9328). Hubble was not a member of the MCC tour party but was coaching in [South Africa](/source/South_Africa) at [Dale College](/source/Dale_College_Boys'_High_School) and [Queen's College](/source/Queen's_College_(South_Africa)) during the tour.[http://www.test-cricket-tours.co.uk/page_3116511.html Test Cricket Tours – England to South Africa 1927–28], Test Cricket Tours. Retrieved 8 April 2016. He was invited to play in a first-class match for [Marylebone Cricket Club](/source/Marylebone_Cricket_Club) (MCC) against a South African Invitational XI at [Benoni](/source/Willowmoore_Park) in December. He never played international cricket, although he is often considered to be unlucky not to have done so.[https://www.kentcricket.co.uk/the-club/history A brief history], [Kent County Cricket Club](/source/Kent_County_Cricket_Club). Retrieved 8 April 2016. He played just five first-class matches in 1928 and 1929 combined, ending his first-class career playing for MCC against the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy_Cricket_Club) in July 1929. As a wicket-keeper, Hubble made over 200 [stumpings](/source/stumpings) during his career. He dismissed ten batsmen in a match in 1923 against [Gloucestershire](/source/Gloucestershire_County_Cricket_Club) at [College Ground, Cheltenham](/source/College_Ground%2C_Cheltenham), a Kent record that as of April 2016 he still holds jointly with Huish. He contributed to over 500 dismissals as a wicket-keeper and took a total of 437 catches in his career, with his best season behind the stumps being 78 dismissals in 1926. As a batsman Hubble scored more than 10,000 runs for Kent and was considered a "beautiful exponent of off-side strokes". He could score quickly at times, his highest score of 189 being made in less than three hours at [Tunbridge Wells](/source/Nevill_Ground) in 1911. He only scored five centuries during his career but of Kent's main wicket-keepers only Ames and [Alan Knott](/source/Alan_Knott) have, as of April 2016, scored more runs for the county. ==Later life== Hubble set up a sports goods business in [Maidstone](/source/Maidstone) in 1910.Hunter C (2012) [http://www.pressreader.com/uk/kent-messenger-maidstone/20120810/281835755847536/TextView It's the end of a true sporting legend], ''Kent Messenger'', 10 August 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2016. He joined forces with former teammates [Les Ames](/source/Les_Ames) and [Tich Freeman](/source/Tich_Freeman) after the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War), setting up stores under the names ''Hubble and Ames'' in Gillingham and ''Hubble and Freeman'' in [Maidstone](/source/Maidstone). The company later merged with Readers who manufactured cricket balls and was eventually taken over by [Kookaburra Sport](/source/Kookaburra_Sport). The stores closed in 2012. Hubble coached cricket in South Africa for a number of years and after retirement became a qualified umpire. He died in 1965 aged 84. Hubble's nephew, [Harold Hubble](/source/Harold_Hubble), also played first-class cricket for Kent for three seasons. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Bibliography== * {{cite book |last=Birley |first=Derek |author-link=Derek Birley |title=A Social History of English Cricket |year=1999 |publisher=[Aurum Press](/source/Aurum_Press) |location=London |isbn=978-18-54107-10-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/socialhistoryofe0000birl_d1n5 |via=[Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive)}} * {{cite book |last=Carlaw |first=Derek |title=Kent County Cricketers, A to Z: Part One (1806–1914) |publisher=[ACS](/source/Association_of_Cricket_Statisticians_and_Historians) |location=Cardiff |year=2020 |url=https://archive.acscricket.com/books/Kent_Cricketers_A_to_Z_Part_One_Revised_Expanded.pdf}} * {{cite book |last=Lewis |first=Paul |title=For Kent and Country |publisher=Reveille Press |location=Eastbourne |year=2014 |isbn=978-19-08336-63-7}} ==External links== *{{cricinfo|id=15015}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hubble, Jack}} Category:1881 births Category:1965 deaths Category:English cricketers Category:Kent cricketers Category:Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Category:English cricketers of 1919 to 1945 Category:20th-century English sportsmen Category:L. 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