Jim Meadowcroft

Jim Meadowcroft
birthday	December 15, 1946
place of birth	Bacup , United Kingdom
date of death	25th September 2015 (age 68)
Place of death	Bacup, United Kingdom
nationality	England
professional	1972/73 - 1992/93
Prize money	15,891 ₤
Highest break	115
Century Breaks	2
World rankings
Highest WRL place	12 ( 1976/77 )

Jim Meadowcroft (born December 15, 1946 in Bacup , United Kingdom , † September 25, 2015 there ) was an English snooker player . He was a professional on the Main Tour for 21 years from the 1972/73 season .

After his playing career, he became a television commentator for snooker games.

Career

Professional player

Before he became a snooker player, he worked as a driving school instructor. Meadowcroft came to the Snooker Main Tour in the 1972/73 season. In his first season he was able to reach the round of 16 at the Snooker World Championship in 1973 , where he was defeated by the eventual world champion Ray Reardon with 10:16. A year later he also lost in the second round of the World Cup with 3:15 against Reardon.

After he was eliminated in the round of 24 in 1975 , he survived all three qualifying rounds at the 1976 World Snooker Championship and moved into the quarter-finals with a victory over Rex Williams , in which he lost 8:15 to the South African Perrie Mans .

One of his greatest successes recorded Meadowcroft with a victory over Ray Reardon at the UK Championship 1977 in the round of 16, but he lost again in the quarter-finals in the Decider against Patsy Fagan . Shortly thereafter, he reached the quarter-finals at the Mercantile Credit Classic 1980, where he lost to Terry Griffiths . He never made it through a quarter-finals in his long career. After the Mercantile Credit Classic in 1980, he reached the round of the last 24 twice. Furthermore, in the early 1980s he could often reach the round of 32 in major tournaments, but never got any further.

His results got worse and worse, so that in the 1992/93 season he was only 130th in the world rankings.

After the snooker career

Meadowcroft became a television commentator on the BBC and ITV in the early 1980s . He commented on the final session of the 1985 World Snooker Championship, known as the "Match of the Century", between Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis .

Meadowcroft was also a snooker trainer and on the board of the World Snooker Association ( WPBSA) .

He was the author of three books.

Private

Meadowcroft had two daughters and three grandchildren.

Jim Meadowcroft died after a brief illness on September 25, 2015. A year earlier, Meadowcroft had had pneumonia . He was buried in Anthony Johnson's Chapel of Rest in his hometown of Bacup.

literature

• Higgins, Taylor and Me . Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1986, ISBN 978-0-213-16933-6 .
• Snooker . Conran Octopus, 1988, ISBN 978-0-7064-3158-2 .
• Snooker - Play to Win . Conran Octopus, 1988, ISBN 978-0-7064-3158-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Ron Florax: Ranking History For Jim Meadowcroft. Cuetracker.net, 2018, accessed on May 10, 2018 .  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ron Florax: Career Total Statistics For Jim Meadowcroft - Professional Results. Cuetracker.net, 2018, accessed on May 10, 2018 .  
3. ↑ ^{a b c} John MacPherson: Family of snooker player Jim Meadowcroft 'overwhelmed' by messages of condolence. Rossendale Free Press, October 5, 2015, accessed May 10, 2018 .  
4. ^ ^{A b} John McPherson: Tributes paid to Valley snooker player Jim Meadowcroft. Rossendale Free Press, September 28, 2015, accessed May 10, 2018 .  
5. ↑ Jim Meadowcroft. www.snookerdatabase.co.uk, 2007, accessed May 10, 2018 .  
6. ↑ ^{a b} Jim Meadowcroft Funeral Detail. WPBSA, October 8, 2015, accessed May 10, 2018 .  

Web links

• Jim Meadowcroft's profile on CueTracker (as of May 10, 2018)