Arthur Baxter
Arthur Douglas "Sandy" Baxter (20 January 1910 – 28 January 1986) was a Scottish first-class cricketer who played with Lancashire, Middlesex and Scotland, as well as with various amateur teams in the 1930s.[1]
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| Full name | Arthur Douglas Baxter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 January 1910 Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 28 January 1986 (aged 76) Edenbridge, Kent, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Sandy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1929–37 | Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1933–34 | Lancashire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1935–37 | MCC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1938 | Middlesex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 6 July 1929 Scotland v Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 13 June 1939 Free Foresters v Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 23 June 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
He was educated at the preparatory school King's Mead School, at Seaford, Sussex, and in July 1930 he bowled Don Bradman in a non-first-class match for Scotland against Australia and to celebrate the school was given a half-day holiday to celebrate, though Bradman had scored 140 before he was out.[2] He was later educated at Loretto School in Scotland.[3]
Baxter was a highly enthusiastic cricket player for amateur teams, a fast bowler of in-swingers, a negligible tail-end batsman and a poor fielder.[3] Despite being only an irregular first-class player, he took five wickets in an innings 16 times and four times went on to take 10 or more wickets in a match; in 1935 when he played seven first-class games, the most he ever achieved in a single season, he headed the English bowling averages for players bowling in 10 or more innings, with 42 wickets at 13.08.[4] He toured Australia and New Zealand with the MCC in 1935–36. In a game for Lancashire against the touring West Indian side at Old Trafford in 1933, he took 5 for 10 runs in a 6 over spell.
Baxter became secretary and director of the paper manufacturing company Spicers Ltd.[1]
References
- "Sandy Baxter". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
- Source: Kings Mead Year-Book Volume 1 1929-1933
- "Obituaries". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1987 ed.). Wisden. p. 1226.
- "First-class Bowling in England in 1935". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
External links
- Arthur Baxter at ESPNcricinfo
- Sandy Baxter at CricketArchive