Arthur Baxter
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Arthur Baxter Scotland Scottish cricket team The Scotland national cricket team represents Scotland in the game of cricket. They compete in the Clydesdale Bank 40 as the Scottish Saltires... (SCO) |
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Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |
Bowling type Types of bowlers in cricket In the sport of cricket there are two broad categories of bowlers: pace bowlers and spin bowlers. Pace bowlers rely mostly on the speed of the ball to dismiss batsmen, whereas spin bowlers rely on the rotation of the ball.-Pace bowlers:... |
Right-arm fast-medium | |
First-class record First-class cricket First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams... |
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Matches | 42 | |
Runs scored | 273 | |
Batting average Batting average Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball that measures the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters. The two statistics are related in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.- Cricket :... |
7.18 | |
100s/50s | 0/0 | |
Top score | 26* | |
Balls bowled | 8405 | |
Wickets | 189 | |
Bowling average Bowling average Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket.A bowler's bowling average is defined as the total number of runs conceded by the bowlers divided by the number of wickets taken by the bowler, so the lower the average the better. It is similar to earned... |
21.75 | |
5 wicket Wicket In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:-Definitions of wicket:Most of the time, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch... s in innings Innings An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably cricket and baseball during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring. In cricket, the term innings is both singular and plural and is... |
16 | |
10 wicket Wicket In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:-Definitions of wicket:Most of the time, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch... 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.