Malcolm Robert Jardine (8 June 1869 – 16 January 1947) was an English first-class cricketer who played 46 matches, mainly for Oxford University.

He played a few matches for Middlesex but later went to work in India, in effect ending his English first-class career.

[1] He was the second son of William Jardine, a barrister and later a judge in Allahabad who had a successful legal career before he died from cholera aged 32.

Although his next highest score in fifteen innings was just 33, and he failed to reach double figures eight times, he was awarded his Blue.

[7] Jardine's final season at Oxford was his most successful; he recorded his highest aggregate and average despite playing only four matches for the club.

[7] In his final University Match, Oxford batted first and Jardine's innings began after his team had lost two wickets without scoring any runs.

[5] Critics noted that he frequently hit Stanley Jackson to the leg side, a method of play which was unusual at the time.

Players educated at Public School generally considered hitting to leg highly unorthodox and almost unfair.

K. S. Ranjitsinhji, who was in the crowd at Lord's, would develop the leg glance and make it respectable within a few years, but he had not yet made his first-class debut in 1892.

The Times commented that Cambridge "appeared a little slow to grasp the idea of putting a man on the leg side for [Jardine]".

[7] Subsequently, Jardine's work as a barrister took him to India,[11] and he played just four more first-class matches in England.

[5][7] Although Jardine did not have an impressive first-class record, critics including Ranjitsinjhi, and Plum Warner considered him a good batsman.

[1][3] In 1898, he married Alison Moir and they had one son, Douglas in 1900, who went on to play first-class and Test cricket for Surrey and England.