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|                name = John Hampshire
|              image =
|            fullname = John Harry Hampshire
|            nickname = Jack
|          birth_date = {{birth date|1941|2|10|df=yes}}
|        birth_place = [[Thurnscoe]], Yorkshire, England
|          death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2017|3|1|1941|2|10}}
|        death_place =
|              height =
|            batting = Right-handed
|            bowling = Right-arm [[legbreak]]
|                role = [[Umpire (cricket)|Umpire]]


{{R from move}}
|      international = true
|            country = England
|      testdebutdate = 26 June
|      testdebutyear = 1969
|    testdebutagainst = West Indies
|            testcap = 442
|        lasttestdate = 14 August
|        lasttestyear = 1975
|    lasttestagainst = Australia
 
|        odidebutdate = 5 January
|        odidebutyear = 1971
|    odidebutagainst = Australia
|              odicap = 6
|        lastodidate = 26 August
|        lastodiyear = 1972
|      lastodiagainst = Australia
 
|              club1 = [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]]
|              year1 = 1961–1981
|              club2 = [[Tasmania cricket team|Tasmania]]
|              year2 = {{nowrap|1967/68–1968/69}}<br />{{nowrap|1977/78–1978/79}}
|              club3 = [[Leicestershire County Cricket Club|Leicestershire]]
|              year3 = 1981
|              club4 = [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club|Derbyshire]]
|              year4 = 1982–1984
 
|              umpire = true
|        testsumpired = 21
|      umptestdebutyr = 1989
|      umptestlastyr = 2002
|        odisumpired = 20
|      umpodidebutyr = 1989
|        umpodilastyr = 2001
|          fcumpired = 349
|        umpfcdebutyr = 1985
|        umpfclastyr = 2005
|        listaumpired = 365
|    umplistadebutyr = 1985
|      umplistalastyr = 2014
|          t20umpired = 8
|      umpt20debutyr = 2004
|        umpt20lastyr = 2005
 
|            columns = 4
|            column1 = [[Test cricket|Test]]
|            column2 = [[One Day International|ODI]]
|            column3 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
|            column4 = [[List A cricket|LA]]
|            matches1 = 8
|            matches2 = 3
|            matches3 = 577
|            matches4 = 280
|              runs1 = 403
|              runs2 = 48
|              runs3 = 28,059
|              runs4 = 7,314
|            bat avg1 = 26.86
|            bat avg2 = 24.00
|            bat avg3 = 34.55
|            bat avg4 = 31.12
|          100s/50s1 = 1/2
|          100s/50s2 = 0/0
|          100s/50s3 = 43/156
|          100s/50s4 = 7/41
|          top score1 = 107
|          top score2 = 25
|          top score3 = 183[[not out|*]]
|          top score4 = 119
|        deliveries1 = –
|        deliveries2 = –
|        deliveries3 = 2,539
|        deliveries4 = 54
|            wickets1 = –
|            wickets2 = –
|            wickets3 = 30
|            wickets4 = 1
|          bowl avg1 = –
|          bowl avg2 = –
|          bowl avg3 = 54.56
|          bowl avg4 = 45.00
|            fivefor1 = –
|            fivefor2 = –
|            fivefor3 = 2
|            fivefor4 = 0
|            tenfor1 = –
|            tenfor2 = –
|            tenfor3 = 0
|            tenfor4 = 0
|      best bowling1 = –
|      best bowling2 = –
|      best bowling3 = 7/52
|      best bowling4 = 1/22
|  catches/stumpings1 = 9/–
|  catches/stumpings2 = 0/–
|  catches/stumpings3 = 446/–
|  catches/stumpings4 = 84/–
 
|              source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/14024.html ESPNcricinfo
|                date = 3 March
|                year = 2017
}}
'''John Harry Hampshire''' (10 February 1941 – 1 March 2017),<ref name="Cap">{{cite book |title=If The Cap Fits |last=Bateman |first=Colin |year=1993 |publisher=Tony Williams Publications |isbn=1-869833-21-X |page=[https://archive.org/details/ifcapfits0000unse/page/84 84] |url=https://archive.org/details/ifcapfits0000unse/page/84 }}</ref><ref name="BBCobit">{{cite web|title=John Hampshire: Yorkshire president dies at the age of 76|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/39129328|publisher=BBC|access-date=1 March 2017}}</ref> also known as '''Jack Hampshire''', was an English [[cricket]]er and [[Umpire (cricket)|umpire]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/657430 |title=International cricketers turned umpires |work=International Cricket Council |access-date=7 April 2018}}</ref> who played eight [[Test cricket|Tests]] and three [[One Day International]]s (ODIs) for [[English cricket team|England]] between 1969 and 1975.<ref name="theguardian" /> He played [[first-class cricket]] for [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]] from 1961 to 1981,<ref name="The Essential Wisden"/> and for [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club|Derbyshire]] from 1982 to 1984. Overseas, he was a successful captain of [[Tasmania cricket team|Tasmania]] in the period before the state was included in the [[Sheffield Shield]].<ref name="indianexpress"/> He was also appointed President of Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 2016, serving until his death.<ref name="theguardian" />
 
Cricket writer Colin Bateman remarked, "Hampshire thrilled English cricket supporters when he scored a century at [[Lord's]] on his Test debut – a unique achievement for an England player. An attractive middle-order stroke-player, Hampshire looked one for the future but he was dropped after one more match".<ref name="Cap"/>
 
==Early life==
Born on 10 February 1941<ref name="John Hampshire"/> in [[Thurnscoe]], Hampshire came from a cricketing family.<ref name="thepca"/> His father, [[John Hampshire (cricketer, born 1913)|John]], played for [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]] in 1937.<ref name="thepca"/> His younger brother, [[Alan Hampshire|Alan]], also played for Yorkshire in 1975.<ref name="thepca"/>
 
==Playing career==
Hampshire made his debut for his native Yorkshire at the age of 20 in 1961,<ref name="espncricinfo.com">{{Cite news |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2017/content/story/1084850.html |title=Yorkshire's John Hampshire dies aged 76 |access-date=1 March 2017 |publisher=ESPN Cricinfo |publication-date=1 March 2017}}</ref><ref name="theguardian" /> where he had a twenty-year career with the club.<ref name="The Essential Wisden">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8dplAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA589 |title=The Essential Wisden: An Anthology of 150 Years of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack |publisher=A&C Black |year=2013 |isbn=9781408178973 |editor=John Stern |editor2=Marcus Williams |page=589}}</ref>
 
Between 1969 and 1975 he played 8 Tests for England, scoring 403 runs.<ref name="theguardian" /><ref name="John Hampshire"/> On his debut against the [[West Indian cricket team|West Indies]] at [[Lord's]], he made a dashing 107 and he appeared set for a glittering Test career. He was the first Englishman to score a Test hundred on debut at Lord's.<ref name="Cap"/> Strangely, he was dropped after the next match, and faded away from the Test arena, making just half-a-dozen more Test appearances for England.<ref name="indianexpress">{{Cite news |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/former-england-batsman-john-hampshire-dies-4550067/ |title=Former England batsman John Hampshire dies |access-date=2 March 2017 |work=[[The Indian Express]] |date=1 March 2017}}</ref>
 
After the ousting of [[Geoff Boycott]] from the Yorkshire [[Captain (cricket)|captaincy]], Hampshire captained the club for two seasons from 1979 to 1980.<ref name="Cap"/> The two had previously clashed, and in the last season of Boycott's captaincy, Hampshire had staged a 'go-slow' at Northampton – which cost Yorkshire a bonus point – as a protest against slow batting by his long-time rival. He left Yorkshire in 1981 during one of the county's then almost perennial bouts of civil war, and during the winter played for a [[Leicestershire County Cricket Club|Leicestershire]] team as a guest in [[Zimbabwe]]. In 1982 he joined Derbyshire where he stayed for three years.<ref name="Cap"/>
 
Hampshire played for Tasmania for five years under the captaincy of [[Jack Simmons (cricketer)|Jack Simmons]].<ref name="espncricinfo-JohnHampshire">{{Cite news |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/1075651.html |title='I've never been so embarrassed as on my Test debut' |access-date=2 March 2017 |publisher=ESPN Cricinfo |publication-date=7 January 2017}}</ref> He made his [[Sheffield Shield]] debut with Tasmania in their first season in 1977–78.<ref name="thepca">{{cite web|title=john hampshire|url=http://www.thepca.co.uk/obituaries.html#John%20Hampshire|website=The Professional Cricketers' Association|access-date=2 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170622192424/http://www.thepca.co.uk/obituaries.html#John%20Hampshire|archive-date=22 June 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was a member of Tasmania's [[1978–79 Gillette Cup (Australia)|1978–79 Gillette Cup]]-winning squad.<ref name="cricketarchive">{{Cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/0/Gillette_Cup_(Australia)_1978-79.html |title=Gillette Cup (Australia) 1978/79 |website=CricketArchive}}</ref>
 
Hampshire was a powerful stroke maker in the middle order, especially strong off the front foot. He scored 28,059 runs in 577 first-class matches at 34.55, including 43 centuries,<ref name="espncricinfo.com" /> with a highest score of 183 not out.<ref name="John Hampshire">{{Cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealanddomestic/content/player/14024.html |title=John Hampshire |website=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref> He added another 7,314 runs in 280 one day matches with a best of 119 at 31.12.<ref name="John Hampshire" /> He was a brave close fielder who took 446 catches in his first-class career.<ref name="John Hampshire" /> He was seen as potentially useful [[Spin bowling|leg spinner]], taking 7 for 52 against [[Glamorgan County Cricket Club|Glamorgan]] in 1963.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1334/1334.html John Hampshire at Cricket Archive]</ref>
 
==Umpiring career==
After retiring from the playing arena, Hampshire became a county umpire in 1985.<ref name="espncricinfo.com"/><ref name="cricketcountry">{{Cite news |url=http://www.cricketcountry.com/news/english-batsman-and-umpire-john-hampshire-passes-away-581466 |title=English batsman and umpire John Hampshire passes away  |access-date=1 March 2017 |publisher=Cricket Country |publication-date=1 March 2017}}</ref> He was then appointed to the Test list in 1989,<ref name="Cap"/><ref name="cricketcountry" /> and later in 1999 he was added to the [[International Cricket Council|ICC]] [[International Panel of Umpires and Referees|panel of umpires]].<ref name="cricketcountry" /> Hampshire stood in his first Test match as an umpire at [[Old Trafford Cricket Ground|Old Trafford]] during the 1989 [[The Ashes|Ashes]].<ref name="espncricinfo.com"/> He remained a highly respected umpire on the first-class circuit until his retirement in 2005.<ref name="espncricinfo.com"/> He stood in 21 Tests and 20 One-day Internationals.<ref name="theguardian"/> He umpired the final of the last [[Benson & Hedges Cup|Benson and Hedges Cup]] competition in 2002 with [[Barry Dudleston]], thirty years after having played against Dudleston in the first final of that competition held in 1972.<ref name="28 Days' Data: England's Troubled Relationship with One Day Cricket">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QrC2DAAAQBAJ&pg=PT13 |title=28 Days' Data: England's Troubled Relationship with One Day Cricket |last=Miller |first=Peter |last2=Tickner |first2=Dave |publisher=Pitch Publishing |year=2016 |isbn=9781785312373 |page=13}}</ref>
 
==Coaching career==
Hampshire coached [[Zimbabwe national cricket team|Zimbabwe]] in its first Test against India in 1992.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://3-mob.com/sport/zimbabwes-first-test-coach-john-hampshire-dies/|title=Zimbabwe’s first Test coach John Hampshire dies|publisher=3-Mob|date=3 March 2017|accessdate=1 February 2023}}</ref>
 
==Death==
Hampshire died at the age of 76 on 1 March 2017, after a long illness.<ref name="BBCobit" /><ref name="theguardian">{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/mar/01/john-hampshire-former-england-and-yorkshire-batsman-dies-aged-76 |title=John Hampshire, former England and Yorkshire batsman, dies aged 76  |last=Macpherson |first=Will  |access-date=1 March 2017 |work=[[The Guardian]] |publication-date=1 March 2017}}</ref>
 
==See also==
* [[List of Test cricket umpires]]
* [[List of One Day International cricket umpires]]
 
==References==
{{Reflist}}
 
==External links==
*{{ESPNcricinfo|id=14024}}
 
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Latest revision as of 21:58, 24 September 2023


For his father of the same name who played for Yorkshire in 1937, see John Hampshire (cricketer, born 1913).

John Hampshire
Personal information
Full nameJohn Harry Hampshire
Born(1941-02-10)10 February 1941
Thurnscoe, Yorkshire, England
Died1 March 2017(2017-03-01) (aged 76)
NicknameJack
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm legbreak
RoleUmpire
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 442)26 June 1969 v West Indies
Last Test14 August 1975 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 6)5 January 1971 v Australia
Last ODI26 August 1972 v Australia
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1961–1981Yorkshire
1967/68–1968/69
1977/78–1978/79		Tasmania
1981Leicestershire
1982–1984Derbyshire
Umpiring information
Tests umpired21 (1989–2002)
ODIs umpired20 (1989–2001)
FC umpired349 (1985–2005)
LA umpired365 (1985–2014)
T20 umpired8 (2004–2005)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 8 3 577 280
Runs scored 403 48 28,059 7,314
Batting average 26.86 24.00 34.55 31.12
100s/50s 1/2 0/0 43/156 7/41
Top score 107 25 183* 119
Balls bowled – – 2,539 54
Wickets – – 30 1
Bowling average – – 54.56 45.00
5 wickets in innings – – 2 0
10 wickets in match – – 0 0
Best bowling – – 7/52 1/22
Catches/stumpings 9/– 0/– 446/– 84/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 3 March 2017

John Harry Hampshire (10 February 1941 – 1 March 2017),[1][2] also known as Jack Hampshire, was an English cricketer and umpire,[3] who played eight Tests and three One Day Internationals (ODIs) for England between 1969 and 1975.[4] He played first-class cricket for Yorkshire from 1961 to 1981,[5] and for Derbyshire from 1982 to 1984. Overseas, he was a successful captain of Tasmania in the period before the state was included in the Sheffield Shield.[6] He was also appointed President of Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 2016, serving until his death.[4]

Cricket writer Colin Bateman remarked, "Hampshire thrilled English cricket supporters when he scored a century at Lord's on his Test debut – a unique achievement for an England player. An attractive middle-order stroke-player, Hampshire looked one for the future but he was dropped after one more match".[1]

Early life[edit | edit source]

Born on 10 February 1941[7] in Thurnscoe, Hampshire came from a cricketing family.[8] His father, John, played for Yorkshire in 1937.[8] His younger brother, Alan, also played for Yorkshire in 1975.[8]

Playing career[edit | edit source]

Hampshire made his debut for his native Yorkshire at the age of 20 in 1961,[9][4] where he had a twenty-year career with the club.[5]

Between 1969 and 1975 he played 8 Tests for England, scoring 403 runs.[4][7] On his debut against the West Indies at Lord's, he made a dashing 107 and he appeared set for a glittering Test career. He was the first Englishman to score a Test hundred on debut at Lord's.[1] Strangely, he was dropped after the next match, and faded away from the Test arena, making just half-a-dozen more Test appearances for England.[6]

After the ousting of Geoff Boycott from the Yorkshire captaincy, Hampshire captained the club for two seasons from 1979 to 1980.[1] The two had previously clashed, and in the last season of Boycott's captaincy, Hampshire had staged a 'go-slow' at Northampton – which cost Yorkshire a bonus point – as a protest against slow batting by his long-time rival. He left Yorkshire in 1981 during one of the county's then almost perennial bouts of civil war, and during the winter played for a Leicestershire team as a guest in Zimbabwe. In 1982 he joined Derbyshire where he stayed for three years.[1]

Hampshire played for Tasmania for five years under the captaincy of Jack Simmons.[10] He made his Sheffield Shield debut with Tasmania in their first season in 1977–78.[8] He was a member of Tasmania's 1978–79 Gillette Cup-winning squad.[11]

Hampshire was a powerful stroke maker in the middle order, especially strong off the front foot. He scored 28,059 runs in 577 first-class matches at 34.55, including 43 centuries,[9] with a highest score of 183 not out.[7] He added another 7,314 runs in 280 one day matches with a best of 119 at 31.12.[7] He was a brave close fielder who took 446 catches in his first-class career.[7] He was seen as potentially useful leg spinner, taking 7 for 52 against Glamorgan in 1963.[12]

Umpiring career[edit | edit source]

After retiring from the playing arena, Hampshire became a county umpire in 1985.[9][13] He was then appointed to the Test list in 1989,[1][13] and later in 1999 he was added to the ICC panel of umpires.[13] Hampshire stood in his first Test match as an umpire at Old Trafford during the 1989 Ashes.[9] He remained a highly respected umpire on the first-class circuit until his retirement in 2005.[9] He stood in 21 Tests and 20 One-day Internationals.[4] He umpired the final of the last Benson and Hedges Cup competition in 2002 with Barry Dudleston, thirty years after having played against Dudleston in the first final of that competition held in 1972.[14]

Coaching career[edit | edit source]

Hampshire coached Zimbabwe in its first Test against India in 1992.[15]

Death[edit | edit source]

Hampshire died at the age of 76 on 1 March 2017, after a long illness.[2][4]

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Bateman, Colin (1993). If The Cap Fits. Tony Williams Publications. p. 84. ISBN 1-869833-21-X.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "John Hampshire: Yorkshire president dies at the age of 76". BBC. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  3. ↑ "International cricketers turned umpires". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Macpherson, Will (1 March 2017). "John Hampshire, former England and Yorkshire batsman, dies aged 76". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 John Stern; Marcus Williams, eds. (2013). The Essential Wisden: An Anthology of 150 Years of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. A&C Black. p. 589. ISBN 9781408178973.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Former England batsman John Hampshire dies". The Indian Express. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 "John Hampshire". ESPNcricinfo.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "john hampshire". The Professional Cricketers' Association. Archived from the original on 22 June 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 "Yorkshire's John Hampshire dies aged 76". ESPN Cricinfo. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  10. ↑ "'I've never been so embarrassed as on my Test debut'". ESPN Cricinfo. 7 January 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  11. ↑ "Gillette Cup (Australia) 1978/79". CricketArchive.
  12. ↑ John Hampshire at Cricket Archive
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 "English batsman and umpire John Hampshire passes away". Cricket Country. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  14. ↑ Miller, Peter; Tickner, Dave (2016). 28 Days' Data: England's Troubled Relationship with One Day Cricket. Pitch Publishing. p. 13. ISBN 9781785312373.
  15. ↑ "Zimbabwe's first Test coach John Hampshire dies". 3-Mob. 3 March 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2023.

External links[edit | edit source]

Sporting positions
Preceded by
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1979–1980 		Succeeded by
Chris Old

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