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English cricketer and schoolmaster

David William Jarrett (born 19 April 1952) is an English schoolmaster who was the first man to win cricketBlues for both Cambridge University and Oxford University.^[1] He attended Wellington College before matriculating at the University of Oxford.

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Cricket career

Born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, Jarrett attended Wellington College, in Berkshire, where he played in the First XI, leading the batting in his final year, 1969, with 493 runs at an average of 37.92.^[2] He went up to Worcester College, Oxford, and played two seasons as a middle-order batsman in the Oxford cricket team.

He achieved only moderate success, but won his Blue in 1975 and played a match-saving innings of 35 in the second innings against Cambridge after Oxford had lost five wickets cheaply.^[3] A few weeks later he began studies at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

In his first match for Cambridge, in April 1976, he made hi