Jack adds name to Hants first class list
Jack Campbell last week became only the third Portsmouth-born cricketer to make his Hampshire first class debut in the 21st century.
The 22-year-old was one of eight players given their Hampshire first class debut in a weather-ruined four-day match against a Sri Lankan Development XI at The Ageas Bowl.
The left-arm seamer became the first Portsmouthborn player since Richard Hindley in 2003 to make his debut. Hindley, still playing today in his mid-40s for Havant, was a late callup against Glamorgan - he scored a half-century on debut but never played again.
Lawrie Prittipaul made his first-class debut in 2000.
Campbell was only the ninth Portsmouth-born player to make his Hampshire first class debut in post-war cricket. The others were Alan Waldron, Mike Barnard, Barry Reed, Richard McIlwaine, David Rock and Jon Ayling.
Alf Pink, who played once in 1885, was the first of 12 Portsmouth-born players to appear in first-class cricket for the county in pre-war action.
Ernest Read, Alfred Wood, Charles Brutton, Edward Lineham, Patrick Hall, Jack Newman, Charles McGibbon, John (JP) Parker, Stephen Fry, Neil McCorkell and John Blake. Newman is the most well-known of that list, taking 1,946 first class wickets for the county - only two bowlers have ever taken more - in a career spanning 1906-1930.
In all, then, Campbell is the 21st Portsmouth-born cricketer to play first-class cricket for the county of his birth.