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Full name Jack van Geloven
Born January 4, 1934, Guiseley, Leeds, Yorkshire
Died August 21, 2003, Edinburgh (aged 69 years 229 days)
Major teams Leicestershire,Northumberland,Yorkshire
Also known as birth registered as Jack Geloven
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Other Umpire
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
100
50
Ct
St
First-class
247
431
44
7522
157*
19.43
5
29
137
0
List A
3
3
1
86
60*
43.00
0
1
0
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
247
31583
13912
486
7/56
28.62
2.64
64.9
14
1
List A
3
161
140
1
1/63
1/63
140.00
5.21
161.0
0
0
0
Career statistics
First-class span
1955 - 1965
List A span
1963 - 1971
Profile
Jack Van Geloven, who died in Edinburgh on August 21 after a long illness, aged 69, was the last Leicestershire player to do the double of 100 wickets and scoring 1,000 runs in a season. He played three times for his native county Yorkshire in 1955, before joining Leicestershire for whom he played from 1956 to 1965.
In sometimes difficult times for the county Van Geloven, a sound right-hand batter and medium-paced bowler from Guiseley, established himself as a most valuable allrounder with first-class figures of 247 matches, averaging 19.43 with the bat, 28.62 with the ball and 137 catches only partly reflecting his worth. His best season was 1962, when to 1055 runs he added exactly 100 wickets for his first, and only "double". He completed the feat by taking the 10th wicket in the second innings of the last match of the season.
After leaving Leicestershire Van Geloven played for Northumberland until 1973 and from 1977 to 1983 he was on the first-class umpires' list. Robert Brooke, Wisden Cricket Monthly, September 2003
