11 Facts About Jack Birkenshaw

Jack Birkenshaw was a stand-off in the school rugby team.

Jack Birkenshaw played a single County Championship match for Yorkshire at the age of 17 in 1958, taking the wicket of Jim Parks in both innings, but did not make another first-class appearance until 1959.

Jack Birkenshaw earned a place in the history books by playing in the pioneering Midlands Knock-Out Cup limited-overs tournament in 1962.

Jack Birkenshaw made two more centuries the following year, but surprisingly for a man who passed fifty on 57 occasions in first-class cricket, he was to reach three figures just once more in his career.

Jack Birkenshaw made 64 on his debut in the fourth Test against India at Kanpur, and claimed three wickets; his first victim in Test cricket was Sunil Gavaskar.

However, there was no Illingworth on the winter tour to the Caribbean, and Jack Birkenshaw played in the last two Tests.

In 1976, Jack Birkenshaw made his only one-day hundred, but his unbeaten 101 against Hampshire in the second round of the Gillette Cup failed to win the game, Leicestershire falling short of their target by three runs.

Jack Birkenshaw finished with Leicestershire in 1980, but had one final season in the game with Worcestershire.

Jack Birkenshaw later returned to his old county of Leicestershire as a coach, after a similar spell at Somerset.

Jack Birkenshaw was elected President of Leicestershire County Cricket Club, initially at the 2019 AGM.

Jack Birkenshaw was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to cricket.