John Percival (cricketer)
{{Short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2017}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = John Percival
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| country = England
| fullname = John Douglas Percival
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1902|08|05}}
| birth_place = Kensington, London
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1983|03|05|1902|08|05}}
| death_place = Roehampton, London
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| batting = Right-handed
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| family =
| club1 = Gloucestershire
| year1 = 1922–1923
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| club2 = Oxford University
| year2 = 1922–1923
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| columns = 1
| column1 = First-class
| matches1 = 3
| runs1 = 38
| bat avg1 = 6.33
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 17
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = 0/0
| date = 8 October
| year = 2022
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/18894.html CricInfo
}}
John Douglas Percival (5 August 1902 – 5 March 1983) was an English cricketer who featured as a right-hand batsman in three first-class cricket matches between 1922 and 1923; one match saw him represent Gloucestershire, in the other two he batted for Oxford University.{{cite web | url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/18894.html | title=Player Profile: John Percival | publisher=ESPN CricInfo | accessdate=3 March 2014}}{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Gloucestershire/Players/32/32014/32014.html | title=Player Profile: John Percival | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=3 March 2014 | archive-date=7 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307155133/http://cricketarchive.com/Gloucestershire/Players/32/32014/32014.html | url-status=dead }} Outside of first-class cricket, he represented numerous clubs and teams including Radley College and Westminster School while a student there, and played for the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1930. During the Second World War he played for the Royal Army Service Corps.{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Gloucestershire/Players/32/32014/all_teams.html | title=Teams John Percival played for | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=3 March 2014 | archive-date=3 March 2014 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20140303211512/http://cricketarchive.com/Gloucestershire/Players/32/32014/all_teams.html | url-status=dead }} Born in Kensington, he died in Roehampton.
Playing career
=Early matches=
Percival's earliest recorded matches took place in June 1918, where he batted for Radley College.{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Gloucestershire/Players/32/32014/Miscellaneous_Matches.html | title=Miscellaneous Matches played by John Percival | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=4 March 2014 | archive-date=25 September 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925103200/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Gloucestershire/Players/32/32014/Miscellaneous_Matches.html | url-status=dead }} He played twice for the college that month, scoring four in the first game against Westminster School but remaining unbeaten on 63 in the second against Bradfield College.{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/281/281797.html | title=Westminster School v Radley College Other matches in England 1918 | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=4 March 2014}}{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/281/281805.html | title=Radley College v Bradfield College Other matches in England 1918 | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=4 March 2014}} A year later, in May 1919, he was playing for Westminster School against various other schools in England. He scored 62 against the Household Brigade that month,{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/295/295032.html | title=Westminster School v Household Brigade Other matches in England 1919 | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=4 March 2014}} and over the next year played against various schools across England. In June 1919 he scored 78 against Tonbridge School,{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/281/281890.html | title=Westminster School v Tonbridge School Other matches in England 1919 | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=4 March 2014}} and in July 1920 he hit 56 while opening the batting against Charterhouse School.{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/282/282009.html | title=Westminster School v Charterhouse School Other matches in England 1920 | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=4 March 2014}}
On 2 August 1920, he represented 'The Rest' at a match at Lord's against a Lord's School XI. The game, which lasted over two days, saw Percival score 23 and 32 opening the batting. The match was a rain-affected draw, with Lord's School being largely dismantled by a nine-wicket haul for Edward Hewetson.{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/302/302845.html | title=Lord's Schools v The Rest Other matches in England 1920 | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=4 March 2014}} Percival played a combined British Army XI at Lord's the next day, but only scored zero and seven.{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/135/135526.html | title=Army v Public Schools Other matches in England 1920 | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=4 March 2014}}
The following summer Percival began in May with 86 against Sherborne School,{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/282/282046.html | title=Westminster School v Sherborne School Other matches in England 1921 | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=4 March 2014}} followed by 58 against Charterhouse on 9 July.{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/282/282146.html | title=Charterhouse School v Westminster School Other matches in England 1921 | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=4 March 2014}} On 1 August he again revisited Lord's to face Lord's Schools but could only score three and seven.{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/302/302857.html | title=Lord's Schools v The Rest Other matches in England 1921 | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=4 March 2014}}
=Oxford=
In 1922 Percival left Westminster School and entered The Queen's College, Oxford. His first match for the university was his first-class debut, and came on 10 May at the university's cricket ground, where he opened the batting against Hampshire. He scored one and 17 – the latter his career best – as Oxford were defeated by 139 runs.{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10375.html | title=Oxford University v Hampshire University Match 1922 | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=4 March 2014}} Ten days later on 20 May he played against the Free Foresters Cricket Club at Oxford, scoring ten and zero.{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10399.html | title=Oxford University v Free Foresters University Match 1922 | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=4 March 2014}} He played one more first-class match on 23 May 1923, this time representing Gloucestershire against Oxford. He scored zero in the first innings, and made ten in the second.{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10744.html | title=Oxford University v Gloucestershire University Match 1923 | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=4 March 2014}} He scored only 38 runs from his three first-class matches in total, at a batting average of only 6.33.
=Later cricket=
Percival settled in Kenya in the later half of the 1920s. In October 1928 he played a 'Officials v Settlers' match in Nairobi, where he represented the Settlers, scoring nine and 21.{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/135/135762.html | title=Officials v Settlers Other matches in Kenya 1928/29 | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=4 March 2014}} The sides played again eleven months later, with Percival making four and 33.{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/135/135796.html | title=Officials v Settlers Other matches in Kenya 1929/30 | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=4 March 2014}} He then returned to England and was invited to play for the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's against 'Indian Gymkhana' on 25 July 1930. However, he was not required to bat.{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/302/302981.html | title=Marylebone Cricket Club v Indian Gymkhana Other matches in England 1930 | publisher=Cricket Archive | accessdate=4 March 2014}} Due to his time in Kenya, he opened the batting for the Kenya Kongonis Cricket Club – a Nairobi cricket club – during their tour of England in 1931, playing in three matches. On the outbreak of the Second World War he represented the Royal Army Service Corps against a team from Aldershot barracks, and he ended his playing days after the war with matches played for 'The Forty Club' at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst through the 1950s.
References
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External links
- {{cricinfo|id=18894}}
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Category:Gloucestershire cricketers
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Category:Oxford University cricketers
Category:People educated at Radley College
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Category:British Army personnel of World War II
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