Jack Jacobs (cricketer)

{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=February 2020}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Jack Jacobs

| image =

| country =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1909|4|16|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Dunedin, New Zealand

| death_date = {{death date and age|2003|6|15|1909|4|16|df=yes}}

| death_place = Southport, Queensland, Australia

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling =

| role = Batsman, occasional wicket-keeper

| club1 = Canterbury

| year1 = {{nowrap|1927/28–1937/38}}

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 12

| runs1 = 464

| bat avg1 = 23.20

| 100s/50s1 = 0/4

| top score1 = 69

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = 5/1

| date = 6 February

| year = 2020

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37502.html Cricinfo

}}

Jack Jacobs (16 April 1909 – 15 June 2003) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Canterbury between 1927 and 1938.{{Cite web|url= https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/22/22202/22202.html |title=Jack Jacobs|accessdate=6 February 2020 |work=CricketArchive}}

Jacobs attended Christchurch Boys' High School.{{cite journal |title=32 Years of Cricket |journal=Press |date=20 March 1954 |page=4 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19540320.2.41}} He was a batsman who occasionally kept wicket. His highest first-class scores were 61 (Canterbury's top score) and 69 in his first match in December 1927, when Canterbury beat Otago by four wickets.{{cite web |title=Canterbury v Otago 1927-28 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/12/12551.html |website=CricketArchive |accessdate=6 February 2020}} He played senior cricket in Christchurch until the early 1950s, and was a member of the Canterbury Cricket Association's management committee in the 1930s and 1940s.

Jacobs served in Greece and Crete with the New Zealand Army in World War II. He was captured by the Germans and spent several years as a prisoner of war.{{Cite web|url= https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C137091 |title=Jack Jacobs|accessdate=6 February 2020 |work=Auckland Museum}} After the war ended in Europe he toured England with the New Zealand Services team from May to September 1945, playing in the team's only first-class match.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17501.html| title = H.D.G. Leveson-Gower’s XI v New Zealand Services 1945| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 19 January 2015}}