Mordaunt Doll

Mordaunt Doll
Personal information
Full name Mordaunt Henry Caspers Doll
Born (1888-04-05)5 April 1888
Camberwell, London, England
Died 30 June 1966(1966-06-30) (aged 78)
Devizes, Wiltshire, England
Batting Right-hand bat
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1907-1920 Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)
1908 Cambridge University
1907-1909 Hertfordshire
1912-1919 Middlesex
Career statistics
Competition FC
Matches 43
Runs scored 1,097
Batting average 18.59
100s/50s 1/-
Top score 102*
Balls bowled
Wickets 15
Bowling average 43.66
5 wickets in innings 1
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 5/52
Catches/stumpings 32/-
Source: Cricinfo

Mordaunt Henry Caspers Doll (5 April 1888 – 30 June 1966) was an English first-class cricketer.

Doll was educated at Charterhouse where he excelled as a schoolboy cricketer (1905–1907). He scored 195 against Westminster in his last season. He and RLL Braddell put on a stand of 214 in the last hour. From Charterhouse he went on to Trinity College, Cambridge.[1]

He was a hard hitting right-handed batsman who represented Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) (1907–1920), Cambridge University (1908), Demobilised Officers (1919), Etceteras XI (1910), Hertfordshire (1907–1909), Middlesex (1912–1919) and PF Warner's XI (1919).

Doll scored 102* in a county record eighth wicket stand of 182 in two hours with Joe Murrell for Middlesex versus Nottinghamshire at Lord's in 1913.

He also toured the West Indies in 1912/1913 with an MCC team led by Arthur Somerset.

References

  1. "Charterhouse register, 1872-1910". London: Chiswick Press. 1911. p. 700.
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