{{Short description|Welsh cricketer}} {{EngvarB|date=August 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Samuel Jagger | image = Samuel Jagger (1).jpg | caption = Samuel Jagger, Wesh Cygnets, 1927 | fullname = Samuel Thornton Jagger | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|6|30|df=yes}} | birth_place = Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales | death_date = {{Death date and age|1964|5|30|1904|6|30|df=yes}} | death_place = Hove, Sussex, England | heightft = | heightinch = | heightm = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right arm medium | club1 = Worcestershire | year1 = {{nowrap|1922—1923}} | club2 = Cambridge University | year2 = 1923—1926 | club3 = Wales | year3 = 1927—1929 | club4 = Sussex | year4 = 1931 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 44 | runs1 = 599 | bat avg1 = 11.30 | 100s/50s1 = 0/1 | top score1 = 58 | deliveries1 = 5,773 | wickets1 = 90 | bowl avg1 = 33.43 <!--CA stats; Cricinfo gives 33.77--> | fivefor1 = 4 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 5/24 | catches/stumpings1 = 38/– | date = 10 July | year = 2008 | source = http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/30/30574/30574.html }}
'''Samuel Thornton Jagger''' (30 June 1904 – 30 May 1964) was a Welsh first-class cricketer who played on more than 40 occasions between the wars. He was later to work as a housemaster at Lancing College.<ref name="wisden-obit">Obituary. ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' 1965.</ref>
Educated at Malvern College, he captained the cricket eleven in both 1921 and 1922.<ref name="wisden-obit" /> His first-class debut came for Worcestershire against Somerset at Weston-super-Mare in August 1922. In a drawn match, Jagger took three first-innings wickets.<ref> {{cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/10/10577.html |title=Somerset v Worcestershire in 1922 |accessdate=10 July 2008 |publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref> He also played for Worcestershire, as well as Cambridge University, the following season, but it was then discovered that his county qualification was invalid.<ref name="wisden-obit" /> During 1923, he made his only first-class half-century when he hit 58 for Cambridge against Essex.<ref> {{cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/10/10818.html |title=Essex v Cambridge University |accessdate=10 July 2008 |publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref> <!--His Wisden obit misses this innings, and erroneously gives 41 as his highest f-c score-->
Jagger played no first-class cricket in 1924, but in the two years thereafter he appeared regularly for Cambridge and won his Blue. In early May 1925, he claimed his first five-wicket haul when he took 5–40 against Sussex at Fenner's.<ref> {{cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/11/11436.html |title=Cambridge University v Sussex in 1925 |accessdate=10 July 2008 |publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref> He also claimed five-wicket bags for Cambridge that season against Free Foresters (taking nine in the match) and Surrey,<ref> {{cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/11/11508.html |title=Cambridge University v Free Foresters in 1925 |accessdate=10 July 2008 |publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref><ref> {{cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/11/11536.html |title=Cambridge University v Surrey in 1925 |accessdate=10 July 2008 |publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref> the three bowling feats coming within a space of six weeks. He ended 1925 with 41 first-class wickets (his highest season's aggregate) at 32.21. The following year he picked up another 24 wickets, and achieved a career-best 5–24 against Yorkshire<ref> {{cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/11/11800.html |title=Cambridge University v Yorkshire in 1926 |accessdate=10 July 2008 |publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref>
From 1927 and 1929, Jagger turned out for Wales, at that point playing a small number of first-class games each year, and played in the side's eight-wicket win over the touring West Indians. The game was dominated by 55-year-old Sydney Barnes' 12 wickets, and the wicketless Jagger's personal contribution was limited to a first-innings 30.<ref> {{cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/12/12812.html |title=Wales v West Indians in 1928 |accessdate=10 July 2008 |publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref> Jagger played a little minor counties cricket for Denbighshire in 1930, but in 1931 returned for his final fling at first-class level, appearing three times without conspicuous success for Sussex.
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