Hubert Doggart
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Hubert Doggart England (ENG) |
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Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
Bowling type | Right-arm offbreak | |
Tests | First-class | |
Matches | 2 | 210 |
Runs scored | 76 | 10054 |
Batting average | 19.00 | 31.51 |
100s/50s | -/- | 20/50 |
Top score | 29 | 219* |
Balls bowled | - | 4412 |
Wickets | - | 60 |
Bowling average | - | 34.28 |
5 wickets in innings | - | - |
10 wickets in match | - | - |
Best bowling | - | 4/50 |
Catches/stumpings | 3/- | 199/- |
George Hubert Graham Doggart, O.B.E., MA (born 18 July 1925 in Earl's Court, London) was an English administrator, cricketer and schoolmaster.
He was the son of the sportsman Graham Doggart (1897-1963) who rose to chair the Football Association and play county cricket for Middlesex. He was an excellent scholar and all-round sportsman. He was educated at Winchester College and King's College, Cambridge. He was a Cambridge blue in five different sports and captain in four. He earned a Master of Arts degree. He taught at Winchester College (1950-1972) and was Headmaster at King's School, Bruton (1972-1985).
He was a successful amateur cricketer for Cambridge University Cricket Club and Sussex (captain in 1954). He represented England in two Test matches in 1950. He married Susan Beattie in 1960 and they had three children. He has held many offices in sports administration, such as President of the MCC (1981-1982), the Cricket Council (1981-1982) and the Cricket Society (1983-1998) and he chaired the Friends of Arundel Castle Cricket Club (1993-2003).
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