Ann Jago

{{short description|English cricketer (born 1939)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2021}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Ann Jago

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| country = England

| fullname = Ann Jago

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1939|2|20|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England

| nickname =

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| role = Bowler

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| international = true

| internationalspan = 1960–1961

| testdebutdate = 31 December

| testdebutyear = 1960

| testdebutagainst = South Africa

| testcap = 59

| lasttestdate = 13 January

| lasttestyear = 1961

| lasttestagainst = South Africa

| club1 = Kent

| year1 = 1957–1961

| columns = 2

| column1 = WTest

| matches1 = 2

| runs1 = 7

| bat avg1 = 7.00

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| top score1 = 6

| deliveries1 = 270

| wickets1 = 1

| bowl avg1 = 59.00

| fivefor1 = 0

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 1/17

| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–

| column2 = WFC

| matches2 = 7

| runs2 = 16

| bat avg2 = 8.00

| 100s/50s2 = 0/0

| top score2 = 6*

| deliveries2 = 600

| wickets2 = 8

| bowl avg2 = 14.75

| fivefor2 = 1

| tenfor2 = 0

| best bowling2 = 5/14

| catches/stumpings2 = 4/–

| date = 16 November 2023

| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/17/17033/17033.html CricketArchive

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Ann Stubbs (née Jago; born 20 February 1939) is an English former cricketer who played primarily as a bowler. She appeared in two Test matches for England in 1960 and 1961, against South Africa. She played domestic cricket for Kent.{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/53791.html|title=Player Profile: Ann Jago|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=5 March 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/17/17033/17033.html|title=Player Profile: Ann Jago|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=5 March 2021}}

Jago's parents were both full-time artists. She was educated at Wolverhampton Girls' High School, where she played in the cricket team alongside Rachael Heyhoe Flint and Jacqueline Elledge.{{cite book|title=All in a Day's Cricket: An Anthology of Outstanding Cricket Writing|editor1=Brian Levison|editor2=Christopher Martin-Jenkins|publisher=Hachette UK|year=2012|isbn=9781780339061|section=Opening the Innings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mneeBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT37|accessdate=8 January 2018}} She studied at Dartford College of Physical Education in Kent, founded as Madame Bergman Österberg's Physical Training College and now part of the University of Greenwich, where Heyhoe was a fellow student.{{cite journal |title=Rachael Heyhoe Flint ... Reminiscence from Ann Stubbs (Jago) |journal=Bergman Österberg Union Magazine |date=2018 |pages=81-82 |url=https://bergmanosterbergunion.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/BOU-Magazine-2018-pp65-83.pdf |access-date=16 November 2023}} Jago and Heyhoe are said to have chosen Dartford as their college because Mary Duggan, the England cricket captain and "the best coach they knew of", was a lecturer there,{{cite journal |title=Rachael Heyhoe Flint [obituary] |journal=Bergman Österberg Union Magazine |date=2018 |pages=79 |url=https://bergmanosterbergunion.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/BOU-Magazine-2018-pp65-83.pdf |access-date=16 November 2023}} Jago later worked as a physical education teacher at Hatton School in Sevenoaks.{{cite news |title=Ann hopes to go back |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sevenoaks-chronicle-ann-hopes-to-go-back/135476502/ |access-date=20 November 2023 |work=Sevenoaks Chronicle |date=10 February 1961 |pages=1}}

She married New Zealander Alister Stubbs, who she met when touring New Zealand after her cricket tour. They live at Waitomo on North Island, with their three adult children and several grandchildren, on land where the grandchildren are the fifth generations of Stubbs. She enjoys watercolour painting.{{cite news |last1=Warwick |first1=Jane |title=Moa bones, caves and velvet worms: Explore the prehistoric treasures at this family's Waitomo farm |url=https://thisnzlife.co.nz/moa-bones-limestone-caves-and-velvet-worms-explore-the-prehistoric-treasures-on-and-below-a-familys-waitomo-farm/ |access-date=16 November 2023 |work=thisNZlife |date=17 November 2022}} Caves on the Stubbs' land are of interest to scientists, and have been the location for the discovery of new species of spiders.{{cite journal |last1=Taylor |first1=Christopher |last2=Probert |first2=Anna |title=Two new species of harvestmen (Opiliones, Eupnoi, Neopilionidae) from Waitomo, New Zealand |journal=ZooKeys |date=14 August 2014 |volume=434 |pages=37–45 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.434.7486 |quote=Access to caves on Stubbs Farm was provided by Alister and Ann Stubbs.|doi-access=free |pmc=4141165 }}