George Jones (Hampshire cricketer)

{{short description|Scottish cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = George Jones

| image =

| country = Scotland

| fullname = George Lennard Jones

| nickname =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|2|11|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1954|6|17|1907|2|11|df=yes}}

| death_place = Aston Reynold, Shropshire, England

| heightft =

| heightinch =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling =

| family =

| club1 = Hampshire

| year1 = 1937

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 9

| runs1 = 169

| bat avg1 = 14.08

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 37*

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = 3/–

| date = 15 January

| year = 2010

| source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/15544.html Cricinfo

}}

George Lennard Jones (11 February 1907 — died 17 June 1954) was a Scottish first-class cricketer.

Jones was born in February 1907 at Lockerbie. He played national counties cricket for Dorset, making his debut against Monmouthshire in the 1925 Minor Counties Championship. He played minor counties cricket for Dorset regularly until 1927, but there after appeared intermittently until 1934, having made twenty appearances.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6693/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by George Jones|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=23 July 2024|url-access=subscription}} He later played first-class cricket for Hampshire in 1937, making eight appearances as a batsman in the County Championship, in addition to playing against the touring New Zealanders at Bournemouth.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6693/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by George Jones|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=23 July 2024|url-access=subscription}} In nine first-class matches, he scored 169 runs at an average of 14.08;{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6693/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by George Jones|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=23 July 2024|url-access=subscription}} his highest score, an unbeaten 37, came against the New Zealanders.{{cite web|url=https://hampshirecrickethistory.wordpress.com/2018/02/22/a-z-j6/|title=A–Z (J6)|website=www.hampshirecrickethistory.wordpress.com|access-date=23 July 2024}} Jones died at Aston Reynold in Shropshire in June 1954.