Arthur Baxter
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Arthur Baxter
Scotland
Scottish cricket team
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 (SCO)
Batting style  Right-handed batsman
Bowling type
Types of bowlers in cricket
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Right-arm fast-medium
First-class record
First-class cricket
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Matches 42
Runs scored 273
Batting average
Batting average
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7.18
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 26*
Balls bowled 8405
Wickets  189
Bowling average
Bowling average
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21.75
5 wicket
Wicket
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s in innings
Innings
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16
10 wicket
Wicket
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s in match
4
Best Bowling 7-33
Catches/Stumpings  10/0
First class debut: -, 1929
Last first class game: -, 1938
Source: http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/26/26948/26948.html

Arthur Douglas Baxter (January 20, 1910 – January 28, 1986) was a Scottish first class cricketer who played with Lancashire, Middlesex and the Scottish national side.

He was an old boy of King’s Mead School, Seaford, East Sussex. On 22nd July 1930 he bowled Don Bradman in a match against Australia and to celebrate the school was given a half-day holiday to celebrate.
Source: Kings Mead Year-Book Volume 1 1929-1933.

In a game for Lancashire against the touring West Indian side at Old Trafford, he took 5 for 10 runs in a 6 over spell.

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