English cricketer
Trevor Edward Jesty
(born 2 June 1948
[1]
) is an English former
cricketer
and
cricket umpire
. As a player he was an
all rounder
(a right-handed batsman and medium-pace bowler
[1]
) who played 490
first-class matches
, scoring 21,916 runs and taking 585 wickets, between 1966 and 1991.
Jesty was born in
Gosport
,
Hampshire
, and played for
Hampshire
,
Surrey
, and
Lancashire
in the
English County Championship
.
[1]
He played overseas for
Border
and
Griqualand West
in South Africa, and
Canterbury
in New Zealand.
[1]
Jesty helped
Hampshire
to win the
1973 County Championship
, taking 35 wickets at an average of 20 (although less successful with the bat that year),
[2]
and the
John Player League
in 1975 and 1978.
Jesty played 10 one-day internationals for England, most of them during the
Benson & Hedges World Series Cup
tournament in 1983. His highlight was scoring 52* off 35 balls against
New Zealand
at
Adelaide
. He was named in the England squad for the
1983 World Cup
(although not playing in any of the matches). He was named as one of the five
Wisden Cricketers of the Year
in 1983 for his performances during the
1982 English cricket season
,
[3]
during which he scored 1645 runs at 58.75, including eight hundreds, and took 31 wickets.
[1]
In 1983 he made 166 not out, his highest score in
limited-over cricket
, in a
John Player League
match again
Surrey
, sharing in an unbroken second-wicket stand of 269 with
Gordon Greenidge
.
[4]
After playing 340 games for Hampshire,
[2]
Jesty moved to
Surrey
for the 1985 season, apparently in part because he was passed over for the Hampshire
captaincy
in favour of
Mark Nicholas
.
[1]
Jesty played for Surrey for the next three seasons.
[1]
While at Surrey he made 112 in a
NatWest Trophy
semi final against
Lancashire
in 1986, finishing narrowly on the losing side.
[5]
Jesty moved to Lancashire for the 1988 season. Into his forties he helped Lancashire to win the
Refuge Assurance Cup
in 1988, top-scoring in the final against
Worcestershire
,
[6]
and the
Refuge Assurance League
in 1989. He was still at the county during its success in 1990, although appearing more in Refuge Assurance League fixtures.
In total Jesty scored 1,000 runs in a
first-class
season 10 times.
[2]
Following his retirement as a player, Jesty became a
cricket umpire
in England, and served as the reserve umpire for the Fourth Test Match at
The Oval
between England and
Pakistan
in 2006. In 2007 he umpired in the unauthorised
Indian Cricket League
.
[7]
He continued as a first-class umpire until his retirement in 2013.
[8]
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