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| Full name | John Thomas Ikin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1918-03-07)7 March 1918 Bignall End,Newcastle-under-Lyme,Staffordshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 15 September 1984(1984-09-15) (aged 66) Bignall End | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm leg break and googly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 312) | 22 June 1946 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 17 August 1955 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1934–1968 | Staffordshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1939–1957 | Lancashire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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John Thomas Ikin (7 March 1918 – 15 September 1984) was an Englishcricketer, who played in eighteenTest matches from 1946 to 1955.[1] A "calm, popular left-hander who also bowledleg spin", Ikin played most of his cricket forLancashire.[1] He was a solid left-handed batsman whose statistically modest Test record underplayed his contribution to the team as a sturdy foil to such players asBill Edrich,Len Hutton andDenis Compton.[1]
He playedminor county cricket forStaffordshire from the age of sixteen, and appeared forLancashire in four games in 1939, takingGeorge Headley's wicket as the first of 339 infirst-class matches.[2] After losing perhaps his best years toWorld War II, during which he fought atTobruk, he resumed his career for Lancashire in 1946 and became a mainstay of the team, recording 1,000 runs in a season eleven times. He toured Australia in the1946–47 Ashes series, compiling an obdurate 60 at Sydney and featuring in a brave stand of 118 withNorman Yardley in Melbourne. He was involved in a pivotal incident in the first Test at Brisbane when he claimed to have caughtDon Bradman at second slip for 28 from the bowling ofBill Voce, only for the umpire to rule the batsman not out. Bradman went on to make 187. Ikin went on MCC's disastrous1947/48 tour of the West Indies underGubby Allen and was understandably less successful, but he scored 625 runs at an average of 89.28 on theCommonwealth XI tour of India and Ceylon in 1950/51.
In Cyril Washbrook's benefit match against the1948 Australians, Ikin had reached 90 when Bradman instructedKeith Miller to bowl. Miller refused, noting that Ikin had been aRat of Tobruk,[citation needed] but his fast bowling partnerRay Lindwall denied Ikin his century, bowling him for 99. Ikin took ahat-trick againstSomerset in 1949, and recorded his highest score of 192 againstOxford University in 1951. Gradually, injury and fragile health took its toll, and Ikin retired at the end of the 1957 season, with 17,968 first-class runs to his name. He resumed his minor county career with success for Staffordshire, playing on until 1968 and served as assistant manager on the1965/66 MCC tour of Australia. nb. Jack Ikin's benefit match was against county champions Surrey in 1953.
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