John Iberson was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. He was a right-handed batsman and leg-break bowler who played for Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire County Cricket Club

Hertfordshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Hertfordshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...

. He was born in Barrow-in-Furness

Barrow-in-Furness

Barrow-in-Furness is an industrial town and seaport which forms about half the territory of the wider Borough of Barrow-in-Furness in the county of Cumbria, England. It lies north of Liverpool, northwest of Manchester and southwest from the county town of Carlisle...

 and died in Bromley

Bromley

Bromley is a large suburban town in south east London, England and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Bromley. It was historically a market town, and prior to 1963 was in the county of Kent and formed the administrative centre of the Municipal Borough of Bromley...

.

Iberson, who debuted in the Minor Counties Championship in 1951 for Kent Second XI, played his first Minor Counties Championship game for Hertfordshire in 1960.

Iberson's debut List A appearance for the team came in the 1964 Gillette Cup, against Durham

Durham County Cricket Club

Durham County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Durham. Its limited overs team is called the Durham Dynamos. Their kit colours are blue with yellow trim and the shirt sponsor was...

. From the tailend, he scored 0 not out, and took figures of 1-20 from 4.3 overs.

Iberson played in the competition again in 1966, scoring a duck in a game dominated by Alan Bell

Alan Bell (cricketer)

Alan Bell was an English cricketer who played for Hertfordshire.Bell, who represented Hertfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship between 1957 and 1967, made a single List A appearance for the side, in the 1966 Gillette Cup....

, who, in his only one-day appearance, scored 105 runs.

External links

• John Iberson at Cricket Archive