Jack Howard (24 November 1917 – 17 September 1998) was an English cricketer active from 1946 to 1948 who played for

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...

. He was born and died in

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. He appeared in 41 first-class matches as a lefthanded

batsman In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the ball with a bat to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since September 2021, officially referred to as a batter (historically, the ...

who occasionally kept wicket and scored 589 runs with a highest score of 38

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.Jack Howard at CricketArchive
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