Jack Mercer (cricketer)

John Jack Mercer was the main bowler for Glamorgan in their early years in the County Championship. He bowled medium pace and could swing the ball both ways, whilst when wickets were affected by rain he was able to get on a good deal of offbreak. He suffered during his career from Glamorgans lack of agile, athletic fieldsmen, which meant he was often plagued by dropped catches otherwise his figures would have been much better. On occasions, he was a dangerous tailend batsman, who once hit Wilfred Rhodes forruns fromovers and hit Dick Howorth forruns off an eightball over in his last season with Glamorgan. John Arlott said of him, he bowled more overs, conceded more runs, took more wickets, scored the fastest 50, made more ducks and was not out more often than anyone else in the countys history.

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