John Michael Hargreaves is a former English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. Hargreaves was a left-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break

Off break

Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners....

. He was born in Gainsborough

Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

Gainsborough is a town 15 miles north-west of Lincoln on the River Trent within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. At one time it served as an important port with trade downstream to Hull, and was the most inland in England, being more than 55 miles from the North...

, Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

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Hargreaves made his debut for Suffolk

Suffolk County Cricket Club

Suffolk County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Suffolk....

 in the 1963 Minor Counties Championship against Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire County Cricket Club

Buckinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Buckinghamshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy. The Minor Counties play...

. Hargreaves played Minor counties cricket for Suffolk from 1963 to 1981, making 60 Minor Counties Championship appearances. He made his only List A appearance against Kent

Kent County Cricket Club

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 in the 1966 Gillette Cup

1966 Gillette Cup

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. In this match, he took the wickets of Brian Luckhurst

Brian Luckhurst

Brian William Luckhurst was an English cricketer, who played his entire county career for Kent County Cricket Club. He played for Kent from 1958 to 1976, usually opening the batting, then in 1985, in an emergency, played in one more match against the Australians. He was cricket manager from 1981...

 and Bob Wilson

Bob Wilson (cricketer)

Robert Colin Wilson is a former first-class cricketer who played in County cricket from 1952 to 1967. He appeared in 365 first-class matches for Kent County Cricket Club. Wilson was a very straight batsman who was never afraid to attack...

 for the cost of 44 runs from 11 overs

Over (cricket)

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. With the bat, he was dismissed for 2 runs by Colin Cowdrey

Colin Cowdrey

Michael Colin Cowdrey, Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge, CBE , better known as Colin Cowdrey, was the Captain of Oxford University, Kent County Cricket Club and the England cricket team in a career that lasted from 1950 to 1976...

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His father, Herbert

Herbert Hargreaves

Herbert Silvester Hargreaves was an English first-class cricketer, who played nineteen matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1934 and 1938...

, also played first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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 for Yorkshire County Cricket Club

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

Yorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....

, as well as Minor counties cricket for Suffolk.

External links

• John Hargreaves at ESPNcricinfo
• John Hargreaves at CricketArchive
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