Jack MacBryan

{{short description|English cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}}

{{Use British English|date=February 2016}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Jack MacBryan

| image = Jack MacBryan.jpg

| birth_name = John Crawford William MacBryan

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1892|07|22|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Box, Wiltshire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1983|07|14|1892|07|22|df=yes}}

| death_place = Cambridge, England

| module = {{Infobox field hockey player

| embed = yes

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalSport | Men's Field Hockey}}

{{MedalCountry|{{GBR}}}}

{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalGold | 1920 Antwerp |Team competition}}

}}

| module2 = {{Infobox cricketer

| embed = yes

| country = England

| batting = Right-handed

| international = true

| onetest = true

| testdebutdate = 26 July

| testdebutyear = 1924

| testdebutagainst = South Africa

| testcap = 221

| club1 = Somerset

| year1 = 1911–1936

| hidedeliveries = true

| columns = 2

| column1 = Tests

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = –

| bat avg1 = –

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = –

| catches/stumpings1= –/–

| column2 = First-class

| matches2 = 206

| runs2 = 10,322

| bat avg2 = 29.49

| 100s/50s2 = 18/48

| top score2 = 164

| deliveries2 = 66

| catches/stumpings2= 128/–

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/16858.html ESPNcricinfo

| date = 3 May

| year = 2011

}}

}}

John Crawford William MacBryan (22 July 1892 – 14 July 1983) was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Somerset and made one almost imperceptible appearance in a Test match for England.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/18816 |title=Jack MacBryan |work=Olympedia |access-date=20 August 2021}} MacBryan was also a field hockey international and won a gold medal at the 1920 Olympic Games with the Great Britain and Ireland team.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/jack-macbryan-1.html |title=Jack MacBryan Bio, Stats, and Results |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202225946/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/jack-macbryan-1.html |archive-date=2 December 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/lists/102/manual |title=Olympians Who Played First-Class Cricket |work=Olympedia |access-date=28 July 2020}}

MacBryan was educated at Exeter School, where he played cricket for the school and was captain in 1911. After school he joined the Somerset Light Infantry. In 1914, a month after the outbreak of World War I, he was wounded and captured at the battle of Le Cateau, and he was a prisoner for the rest of the war.{{cite newspaper The Times |issue=61586 |title=J. C. W. Macbryan |date=16 July 1983 |page=10}} After the war he went up to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he won his blue for cricket in 1920.{{cite newspaper The Times |issue=42416 |title=Cricket |date=21 May 1920 |page=7}}

An amateur and a right-hand batsman, MacBryan was the leading Somerset batsman in the years after the World War I and was called up for the Old Trafford Test match against the South Africans in 1924. But the match was ruined by rain, and MacBryan remains the only Test cricketer who neither batted, bowled nor dismissed anyone in the field (where he spent 66.5 overs). His chance never came again.{{cite book |title=Ask Bearders |last=Frindall |first=Bill |author-link=Bill Frindall |year=2009 |publisher=BBC Books|isbn=978-1-84607-880-4 |pages=189–190 }}

He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1925.