22 Facts About Jimmy Sinclair

James Hugh Sinclair was a South African cricketer who played in 25 Test matches from 1896 to 1911.

Jimmy Sinclair scored South Africa's first three Test centuries and was the first person from any country to score a century and take five wickets in an innings in the same Test.

Jimmy Sinclair is one of the fastest-scoring Test batsmen of all time.

Jimmy Sinclair stood six feet four inches tall and was a "prodigious right-handed hitter and an excellent fast bowler, combining a nice variety of pace with a high delivery".

Jimmy Sinclair finished the series South Africa's second-highest scorer with 103 runs at an average of 17.16 and, opening the bowling, South Africa's second-highest wicket-taker with eight wickets at an average of 30.37.

In February 1897 Jimmy Sinclair scored 301 not out in a club game, which remained the highest score in any form of cricket in South Africa for many years.

Jimmy Sinclair did not bowl in the First Test, but scored 86, South Africa's first Test fifty, opening the first innings; apart from Pelham Warner's 132 in England's second innings, no one else in the match reached 40.

Jimmy Sinclair was caught on the boundary in each innings.

Jimmy Sinclair fought on the British side in the Boer War.

Jimmy Sinclair had a difficulty in that there was no patrol jacket big enough to fit him.

Jimmy Sinclair was captured by the Boers but escaped in time to take part in South Africa's tour of England in 1901.

Jimmy Sinclair's batting was only moderately successful, but in the first-class matches against the counties he twice took 13 wickets in a match, and as an indication of the esteem in which he was held in England he was invited to play a few games for London County and to represent the Gentlemen against the Players.

The First Test was drawn, Jimmy Sinclair making 44 and 19 and taking five wickets.

Jimmy Sinclair made a duck in the first innings of the Third Test, but in the second innings he made one of the fastest Test centuries of all time: 104, including six sixes, in 80 minutes, off approximately 79 balls.

Jimmy Sinclair had gone to the wicket at 81 for 2, and the score was 216 for 6 when he was dismissed.

Jimmy Sinclair continued to play Test cricket until 1911, but with only moderate success.

Jimmy Sinclair scored his runs at around 71 or 72 per 100 balls.

Jimmy Sinclair played international rugby union and won a single international appearance in association football, thus representing his country at three sports.

Jimmy Sinclair worked in banking before setting up as a "mining material and general broker".

In fact they noted that Jimmy Sinclair "had admired and loyally backed Llewellyn over a period of fifteen years".

Jimmy Sinclair, who was on the committee that organised the tour to Australia, had supported both Llewellyn's inclusion in the team and a special payment for him in recognition of Llewellyn's life as a professional cricketer.

Jimmy Sinclair did not name them or say that the behaviour had a racial motivation.