{{short description|Australian cricketer (1922–1993}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=March 2018}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Jack Treanor | image = Jack Treanor of NSW.png | country = Australia | fullname = John Cassimar Treanor | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|8|17|df=yes}} | birth_place = Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | death_date = {{Death date and age|1993|11|7|1922|8|17|df=yes}} | death_place = Ballina, New South Wales | heightft = | heightinch = | heightm = | batting = Left-handed | bowling = Right-arm leg-spin | role = | club1 = New South Wales | year1 = 1954–55 to 1956–57 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 17 | runs1 = 197 | bat avg1 = 11.58 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 33* | deliveries1 = 3,661 | wickets1 = 63 | bowl avg1 = 27.71 | fivefor1 = 4 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 5/36 | catches/stumpings1 = 3/– | date = 24 January 2017 | source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6144/6144.html CricketArchive }} '''John Cassimar Treanor''' (17 August 1922 – 7 November 1993) was a first-class cricketer who played for New South Wales between 1954 and 1957.
==Cricket career== A leg-spin bowler, Treanor made his first-class debut in the Sheffield Shield against Queensland in 1954–55, taking 5 for 146 and 3 for 69 (including a hat-trick) in the drawn match.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1950S/1954-55/AUS_LOCAL/SS/QLD_NSW_SS_29OCT-02NOV1954.html| title = Queensland v New South Wales 1954–55| publisher = Cricinfo| access-date = 1 February 2025}}</ref> In his next match he took 3 for 64 and 4 for 96 against the touring MCC,<ref>{{cite web | url = http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1950S/1954-55/ENG_IN_AUS/MCC_NSW_12-16NOV1954.html| title = New South Wales v MCC 1954–55| publisher = Cricinfo| access-date = 1 February 2025}}</ref> and in his third match he took 5 for 97 and 3 for 41 against Victoria.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1950S/1954-55/AUS_LOCAL/SS/VIC_NSW_SS_24-29DEC1954.html| title = Victoria v New South Wales 1954–55| publisher = Cricinfo| access-date = 1 February 2025}}</ref> The English journalist Alan Ross thought Treanor was the best spin bowler in Australia at the time, and should have been chosen for the tour to England in 1956,<ref>Alan Ross, ''Green Fading into Blue'', Andre Deutsch, London, 1999, p. 69.</ref> but Treanor played only two matches in the 1955–56 season.
He took 28 wickets at an average of 30.25 in 1956–57,<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6144/f_Bowling_by_Season.html| title = First-class bowling in each season by John Treanor| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 24 January 2017}}</ref> and took his best figures of 5 for 36 in the tied match against Victoria,<ref>{{cite web | url = http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1950S/1956-57/AUS_LOCAL/SS/VIC_NSW_SS_22-27DEC1956.html| title = Victoria v New South Wales 1956–57| publisher = Cricinfo| access-date = 1 February 2025}}</ref> but that was his last season of first-class cricket.
Treanor was a highly successful bowler in Sydney grade cricket.<ref>''Wisden'' 1995, p. 1397.</ref> In the 1970s he coached the cricket team at the University of Wollongong.<ref>{{cite news| work=Campus News | accessdate=24 January 2017| title=Club gears for cricket season |url=http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=campusnews |date=8 September 1976}}</ref>
==Personal life== In the Second World War Treanor served as a sapper with 2/4 Field Company.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?serviceId=A&veteranId=235018 | title = Service record: Treanor, John Cassimar | publisher = Commonwealth of Australia | accessdate = 24 January 2017 | archive-date = 3 February 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170203012850/http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?serviceId=A&veteranId=235018 | url-status = dead }}</ref> He married Norma Durrington in Lismore, New South Wales, in June 1947.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Wedding at 5.30 p.m. |journal=Northern Star |date=12 June 1947 |page=2 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/99163589}}</ref>
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