1. John McCarthy Blackham was a Test cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia.
18 Facts About Jack Blackham
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Jack Blackham was born in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy North, the son of newsagent Frederick Kane Jack Blackham and his wife Lucinda.
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Jack Blackham became a bank clerk, and held a position in the Colonial Bank of Australasia for many years.
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Jack Blackham was included in the first eleven of the Carlton Cricket Club as a batsman at the age of sixteen.
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Jack Blackham first appeared for the Victorian team in 1874, and remained an automatic selection as the team's wicket-keeper for over twenty years.
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Jack Blackham was a member of the first eight Australian cricket teams to visit England.
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Jack Blackham was one of the first wicket-keepers to stand up close to the stumps, even to the fastest bowlers, wearing gloves that Jack Pollard describes as "little more than gardening gloves".
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Australia's leading bowler Fred Spofforth refused to play in the match, because Jack Blackham was preferred to Spofforth's New South Wales teammate Billy Murdoch.
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Jack Blackham spent most of the 1st day of the 1st Test Match in the Home Dressing Room as he was batting at No: 8.
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Jack Blackham made his Test debut when Ned Gregory, Australia' No: 7 achieved the dubious distinction of being the 1st Test Batsman to score a duck.
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Jack Blackham became Charles Bannerman's 7th partner.
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Jack Blackham was 22 years 308 days old and became, at that time the youngest Test player in Test cricket.
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Jack Blackham told him what had happened and forecast ominously the danger as the Australian team travelled to the ground, the carriage leaving deep furrows in the moist turf.
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Jack Blackham was right to be so concerned: on a horrific "sticky dog", his side eventually collapsed to 166 all out, losing the match by ten runs.
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Jack Blackham injured himself in this match and never played Test cricket or kept wickets again.
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Jack Blackham was not a success as a captain, as he worried too much when off the field.
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Jack Blackham was a leading Australian rules footballer for Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football Association during the 1880s.
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Jack Blackham later invested his earnings from his tours of England, without success.