| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm offbreak | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | English | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | First-class | List A | ||
| Matches | 150 | 2 | ||
| Runs scored | 4433 | 66 | ||
| Batting average | 21.41 | 66.00 | ||
| 100s/50s | 1/23 | 0/1 | ||
| Top score | 118* | 60* | ||
| Balls bowled | 11288 | 79 | ||
| Wickets | 161 | 5 | ||
| Bowling average | 27.62 | 9.40 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | 8 | 1 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | 1 | N/A | ||
| Best bowling | 7-83 | 5-47 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 55/0 | 0/0 | ||
| Source: Cricket Archive, | ||||
Jack Dyson (8 July 1934 - 22 November 2000) was both an English first class cricketer and a professional footballer.
He started his sporting career as a footballer and spent four seasons with Manchester City during which time he played 62 matches and scored 26 goals. One of those goals came in their 1956 FA Cup Final victory over Birmingham.
After leaving football he concentrated on his cricketing career, which had already began while he was with Manchester City. A right-handed batsman and handy offspinner, he made his first class debut in 1954, playing with Lancashire. He earned his Lancashire Cap two years later, the same year that he had won his FA Cup winner's medal. He scored what would be his only first class hundred, 118 not out against Scotland and played in an unusual victory over Leicestershire as it was achieved without losing a wicket.
Dyson was a controversial figure throughout his career, he was a free spirit and it ended up costing him his job at Lancashire. In 1960 the Lancashire committee charged him with "a serious breach of discipline and an act of insubordination and insolence to the captain".
For the next three years Dyson played with Staffordshire and in league cricket. In September 1963 the Lancashire committee was overthrown and Dyson returned to the county for two more seasons.