James Geoffrey Lomax (20 May 1925 – 21 May 1992) played first-class cricket as a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler for Lancashire and Somerset between 1949 and 1962.
Tall and fair-haired, Lomax was initially seen as a fast-medium bowler who could bat a bit, but in his later cricket career with Somerset was used mainly as a batsman, often opening the innings.
It goes on: "He found himself, at some time, batting in almost every position in the order; he pegged away at just above medium pace, capable of his two or three wickets.
[5][6] In 1951, in the match against Middlesex at Old Trafford, he made his first score of more than 50, with 52, and put on 103 for the seventh wicket with the schoolboy Colin Smith.
[5] As in the Minor Counties side four years earlier, he was employed largely to open the bowling, usually alongside Brian Statham, before the spinners Tattersall, Hilton and Berry took over.
Lomax was one of three new Somerset players in 1954 with previous experience of county cricket – the others were his Lancashire off-spin colleague Jim Hilton and the Australian-born Surrey slow left-arm bowler John McMahon.
[14] Then in mid-August he scored 101, his maiden first-class century, in the match against Northamptonshire at Taunton, despite sustaining an elbow injury against an attack that included Frank Tyson, then at the height of his fast-bowling powers.
[6] As a batsman he was again useful in the late middle order, totalling 892 runs for an average of 21.23; his highest score for the season was just 71.
[5] Somerset remained at the bottom of the County Championship table in both of Lomax's first two seasons with the team.
He played in only half the first-class matches, made just 351 runs at an average of 12.10 and bowled only 110 overs, taking 13 wickets.
[5] There was, though, finally a second century to add to the one he had scored in 1954 – an unbeaten 104 in the match against Sussex at Eastbourne, which was the highest innings of Lomax's career.