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Arthur Jepson (12 July 1915 – 17 July 1997) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire before becoming an umpire. In addition to cricket he was also an accomplished football goalkeeper who played over 100 games in the Football League before turning his hand to management. A right-arm fast-medium bowler for Nottinghamshire between 1938 and 1959, he took 1050 first-class class wickets, becoming one of the top ten most prolific bowlers in the club's history. He then spent 26 years as an umpire, presiding over four Test matches. In his footballing career he played for non-league sides Newark Town, Mansfield Town, and Grantham Town, before playing for Port Vale either side of World War II. He then spent 1946 to 1948 in the top-flight with Stoke City, before winding down his career following a two-year stint with Lincoln City. He later turned out for non-league sides Northwich Victoria and Gloucester City, and also briefly managed Long Eaton United and Hinckley United. ==Cricket career== Jepson, a right-arm fast-medium bowler, made his county debut as a 23-year-old in 1938. He had his best summer in 1947 when he took 115 wickets at 27.78, the only occasion when he took more than 100 wickets in a season.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= First-class Bowling in Each Season by Arthur Jepson )〕 On the back of his prolific summer he represented the Marylebone Cricket Club twice the following year. In a match against Leicestershire in 1958, his penultimate season, he took a career best 8 for 45 to dismiss Leicestershire in their second innings for 128. He brought up his 1000th first-class wicket when he had first innings century maker and captain Willie Watson caught by Norman Hill.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Nottinghamshire v Leicestershire County Championship 1958 )〕 He batted mostly in the lower order and made a solitary century in his first-class career, an innings of 130 against Worcestershire at Trent Bridge when he shared in a sixth wicket partnership of 270 with opener Reg Simpson.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Nottinghamshire v Worcestershire County Championship 1950 )〕 After retiring as a cricketer, Jepson turned to umpiring and officiated in county matches up until 1985. He umpired at the Friends Provident Trophy from 1963 to 1987. Between 1966 and 1969 he umpired four Test matches, the first of which was between England and the West Indies at Nottingham, where Basil Butcher scored a double hundred.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=England v West Indies 3rd Test 1966 )〕 He also umpired in five One Day Internationals, including three at the 1975 Cricket World Cup; East Africa vs India, Sri Lanka vs West Indies, and Pakistan vs Sri Lanka.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Arthur Jepson as Umpire in One-Day International Matches )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur Jepson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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