Hubert Doggart

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Hubert Doggart
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Hubert Doggart
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/-

Test debut: 8 June 1950
Last Test: 24 June 1950
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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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