Jack Marshall (cricketer)

John Maurice Alex Marshall (26 October 1916 – 19 March 2000) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket in 29 matches for Warwickshire and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1946 and 1956.^[1] He was born in Kenilworth, Warwickshire and died at Warwick.

A Warwickshire schoolmaster, Jack Marshall was a right-arm leg-spin bowler and a right-handed lower order batsman who played first-class cricket as an amateur for Warwickshire in the seasons after the Second World War.^[2] His only season of regular cricket was the dislocated 1946 season, when he took 43 wickets as foil or deputy to the established Eric Hollies. These included his career-best figures of five Worcestershire wickets for 65 runs in his very first match.^[3] His lower-order batting was often useful, though he was consistent rather than spectacular: a career average of 17 runs per innings, with very few not out innings to swell the average, went alongside a highest score of just 47.^[1]

After 1946, when he was awarded his county cap, he played only occasional matches for Warwickshire through to 1950, without success; he returned to first-class cricket for a single game in 1956 for MCC against Ireland.^[1]