David William Jarrett (born 19 April 1952) is an English

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who was the first man to win

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for both

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and

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. He attended

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before matriculating at the University of Oxford. He served as

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Reed's School Reed's School is an independent secondary school, secondary day school, day and boarding school for boys with a co-educational sixth form located in Cobham, Surrey, England. There are currently around 700 day pupils (620 boys, 80 girls) and 1 ...

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, from 1997 to 2014.

Cricket career

Born in

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, Jarrett attended

, in

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, where he played in the First XI, leading the batting in his final year, 1969, with 493 runs at an average of 37.92. He went up to

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, and played two seasons as a middle-order batsman in the Oxford cricket team. He achieved only moderate success, but won his Blue in 1975 and played a match-saving innings of 35 in the second innings against Cambridge after Oxford had lost five wickets cheaply. A few weeks later he began studies at

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. In his first match for Cambridge, in April 1976, he made his highest first-class score, 62, after Cambridge had lost their first five wickets for 23 on the first morning against

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. In the 1976

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he made 56 in 190 minutes in the second innings in a vain attempt to deny Oxford victory. That was his last first-class match. He also won a

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Blue at Cambridge. He played a few matches for

Second XI in 1976 and 1977, scoring a century against

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Second XI at

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in 1976. He played

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cricket for

Bedfordshire Bedfordshire (; abbreviated ''Beds'') is a Ceremonial County, ceremonial county in the East of England. It is bordered by Northamptonshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Hertfordshire to the south and the south-east, and Buckin ...

in 1978 and 1981.

Teaching career

Jarrett taught

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for 20 years at

Bedford School Bedford School is a 7–18 Single-sex education, boys Public school (United Kingdom), public school in the county town of Bedford in England. Founded in 1552, it is the oldest of four independent schools in Bedford run by the Harpur Trust. Bed ...

, where he was also master-in-charge of cricket. In 1997 he became

, and served in that position until his retirement in 2014. In 1996 Reed's was ranked 671st in the national league tables for independent schools; by 2011 it had risen to 88th. He also raised the standard of cricket at Reed's, where an indoor cricket centre has been named in his honour. He and his wife Anne have two children.

References

External links

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