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Andrews Clifford Jack: (289 – Amateur) born Swindon 6.8.1912, died Eastleigh 11.12.1973. Jack Andrews was a wicketkeeper and lower-order batsman who played seven matches for Hampshire (five in the Championship – HS 29) from 1938-1948, principally covering the absence of Neil McCorkell. He played for Hampshire 2nd XI and Club & Ground, and during the war for various sides including Southampton Police, the British Empire XI and the Club Cricket Conference. His brother Bill was a player and coach at Somerset for many years and published his autobiography The Hand That Bowled Bradman, which includes a photograph of Jack.
Yasir Arafat (LA/T20 – normally listed under Y) born 12.3.1982 in Pakistan. Pace bowler Yasir Arafat played international cricket for Pakistan in all three formats and for various domestic teams there, as well as for a number of county sides. He joined Hampshire to play in ‘white-ball’ cricket in 2015 and in the following season went on loan to Somerset. He played in six List A matches (BB 3-56) and 16 T20s (BB 4-37 v Somerset) in 2015.
Arkwright Francis Godfrey Bertram (227 – Amateur) born 30.1.1905 Bromley, Kent, died 1.7.1942 Libya. He was a hard-hitting batsman said to be weak in defence. In 1923, at the age of 18, he scored 175 for Eton v Winchester, an innings that was probably seen by HS Altham, and later in that season he appeared in three matches for Hampshire but scored only 44 runs in five innings (HS 14). Apart from his final innings batting at number three, he appeared at numbers nine or ten, but did not bowl. He went to Sandhurst at the end of that season, became a career soldier and two years later played one further first-class match for the Army v Cambridge University (0 & 23 – his highest first-class score).
In 1940, he was an officer in the 12th Royal Lancers when they covered the evacuation of the BEF from Dunkirk. For bravery in that action he was awarded the MC, while in 1942, as a member of the famous ‘Desert Rats’ in North Africa, he was awarded the DSO. He was killed on 1 July when his tank was hit by a shell and laid to rest in the Commonwealth War Cemetery at El Alamein.
(further information on his military record in The Hampshire Handbook 2010 article “Hampshire’s World War II Roll of Honour” by Stephen Saunders, pp 46-49).
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