Donald Pringle

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Donald Pringle
East Africa
Personal information
Batting style	Right-handed batsman
Bowling style	Right-arm medium
Career statistics
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	-	2
Runs scored	-	5
Batting average	-	2.50
100s/50s	-/-	0/0
Top score	-	3
Overs	-	15
Wickets	-	0
Bowling average	-	-
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	n/a
Best bowling	-	-
Catches/stumpings	-/-	0/0
As of 31 March 2006 Source: [1]

Donald James Pringle (May 1, 1932, Prestwich, Bury, England – October 4, 1975, Nairobi, Kenya) was an East African cricketer. He represented East Africa in two One day Internationals in the inaugural 1975 World Cup.

He was born in Lancashire but moved to Kenya as a landscape consultant in the late 1950s. His son Derek was born there in 1958. Like his son, Don was a fast-medium bowler, and he played in two of East Africa's three matches in 1975. He didn't take a wicket ... but he was 43 at the time. Sadly, he was killed in a car crash later that same year, returning home from a cricket match in Nairobi in which he'd taken 6 for 16.

His son, the cricketer Derek Pringle represented Cambridge University, Essex and England and is currently the Cricket Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph.

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v • d • e East Africa squad - 1975 Cricket World Cup 1 Harilal Shah (c/wk) • 2 Frasat Ali • 3 Jawahir Shah • 4 Hamish McLeod • 5 Mehmood Quaraishy • 6 Praful Mehta • 7 John Nagenda • 8 Parbhu Nana • 9 Don Pringle • 10 Ramesh Sethi • 11 Shiraz Sumar • 12 Samuel Walusimbi • 13 Yunus Badat • 14 Zulfiqar Ali