Claude Jennings

Claude Barrows Jennings (5 June 1884 – 20 June 1950) was a cricketer who played for South Australia, Queensland and Australia.[1]

Claude Jennings

Cricket information
Batting	Right-handed
International information
National side	Australia
Test debut (cap 103)	27 May 1912 v South Africa
Last Test	19 August 1912 v England
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class Matches 6 60 Runs scored 107 2,453 Batting average 17.83 25.55 100s/50s 0/0 1/16 Top score 32 123 Catches/stumpings 5/– 38/3
Source: CricketArchive, 12 October 2022

Jennings was a right-hand opening batsman and occasional wicket-keeper who had a fairly undistinguished domestic cricketing career in Australia in which he scored just one century and averaged, in first-class matches, little over 20 runs per innings. He owed his selection for the Australian team that contested the 1912 Triangular Tournament in England to the dispute between the Australian Cricket Board of Control and senior players, including Clem Hill and Victor Trumper, which led to six leading players being omitted from the touring party.

On the tour, Jennings played in all six Test matches, three each against England and South Africa. In eight innings, two of them not out, he scored 107 runs with a highest of 32 in his very first Test innings, against South Africa at Manchester. He did not keep wicket in the Tests. On the tour as a whole, he scored 1037 runs, with a highest score of 82.

He retired from first-class cricket after the tour and went into business administration, acting as a British trade representative in South Australia and as secretary of the Adelaide Chamber of Commerce.