Twenty-five at the end of the Great War, Jack Durston played for Brentford between 1919 and 1921 so faced the Grecians in both the Southern League and the new Division Three (his second appearance coming in just the Grecians' third match in the Football League).

Attempting to establish himself in both sports, fast bowler Jack found his cricket career moving at the quicker pace when helping Middlesex to win the county championship in both 1920 and 1921. Having played in around half of Brentford's league games during his time at Griffin Park what proved to be the sum of his professional football career coincided with his England cricketing debut against New Zealand in June 1921.

Although he took five wickets, albeit against weak opposition, Jack made no further England appearances although he continued to play county cricket until 1933 taking over 1300 wickets in the process. Becoming a better bat as he grew older, he shared a Middlesex record ninth-wicket partnership in 1927 with the same Patsy Hendren alongside whom he had once faced the Grecians.

Jack later ran an indoor cricket school in Acton and died in April 1965 aged seventy-one. Intriguingly he was one of a handful of inter-war England cricketers to feature on the footballing field of play against Exeter City alongside the more illustrious Les Ames (Clapton Orient), Wally Hammond (Bristol Rovers) and, of course, Patsy Hendren.