Talk:Doug Walters

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[edit] Century in a session

I made this edit removing the mention that Walters hit a century in a session in Tests three times. He did it twice - v WI at Port of Spain, 1972-73 and v England, WACA, 1974-75 - but that seems to be about it.

The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket does say that he did it thrice, the third one being against NZ in 1973-74 (Cricinfo might have got that info from there). I quote statistician Charles Davis, who has access to the scorebook the game : The scorebook of the Test that I have is unconventional, and lacks certain details, but it is clearly impossible for Walters to have scored 100 in a session. He came to the wicket at 11:34 and lunch was either 12:30 or 1:00. He took 158 minutes to reach 100. Walters did score 100 before lunch in one of the World XI matches in 1971/72 at Melbourne.

Charlie Wat's book "Australian First Class Cricket" (1993) lists all hundreds in a session in fcc by Australian batsmen. These are the occasions when KDW did so :

100 added to overnight score before lunch :

• 2* to 104* (127), Aus v RoW, Melbourne, 1971-2 (day 5)

100 added between lunch and tea:

• 100 (112), Aus v WI, P-o-S, 1972-73

100 added between tea and stumps :

• 100 (100*) Aus v Northern Dist, 1973-74
• 103*, Aus v Eng, Perth 1974-75.

Tintin (talk) 05:43, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Larrikin and ocker

Re [1], I am not for or against calling him that in the lead, but the article on Walters in Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket ends : "Walters, more than any other Australian cricketer of 1970s, epitomised popular "ocker" ideals". (Oxford Companion to Australian Cricketers, ed. Cashman, Franks, Maxwell, Stoddart, Weaver and Webster, Oxford Univerity Press, 1996, p.562) Tintin (talk) 02:56, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

If he's ocker then he's ocker, but ocker is different from larrikin. One does not necessarily or even often have to be both. The Macquarie dictionary defines an ocker as an uncultivated Australian working man, who may or may not be boorish, uncouth and chauvinistic. There is currently a useless redirect on the Ocker page, I will have to start a proper entry on it. Grumpyyoungman01 06:52, 7 November 2006 (UTC)