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| Full name | George Copeland Grant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 May 1907 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 26 October 1978 (aged 71) Cambridge, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Jack, Jackie | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 31) | 12 December 1930 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 14 March 1935 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1928–1930 | Cambridge University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1931/32 | Rhodesia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1933/34–1934/35 | Trinidad and Tobago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 30 May 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
George Copeland "Jackie" Grant (9 May 1907 – 26 October 1978) was a West Indian cricketer who captained the West Indies in Test cricket between 1930 and 1935. He was later a missionary in South Africa and Rhodesia.
Appointed to the Test captaincy at the age of 23, Grant led the West Indies team on its first tour of Australia in 1930–31, and later to its first series victory, when it beat England in 1934–35.
Grant went on to be a teacher in Southern Rhodesia, Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada, and inspector of schools in Zanzibar. From 1949 to 1956 he was the principal of the mission school Adams College near Durban, until the school was forcibly closed as part of the apartheid punitive education laws. He then undertook missionary work in Rhodesia, concentrating on the education and welfare of black Africans, until the Ian Smith government refused him permission to return to the country in 1975.