Douglas Gain
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Douglas Robert Gain is a South African cricket
er. He is a right-handed batsman and an occasional right-arm medium pace
bowler.
He captained the South Africa Under 19s during their tour of India, against the Indian Under 19s. In the three match series, in which he captained all three matches, he won one, lost one and drew the last one. A batsman with one first-class
century and 11 half-centuries to his name, he has played for Boland, Gauteng and Transvaal
.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er. He is a right-handed batsman and an occasional right-arm medium pace
Fast bowling
Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...
bowler.
He captained the South Africa Under 19s during their tour of India, against the Indian Under 19s. In the three match series, in which he captained all three matches, he won one, lost one and drew the last one. A batsman with one first-class
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...
century and 11 half-centuries to his name, he has played for Boland, Gauteng and Transvaal
Transvaal cricket team
Gauteng cricket team is the first-class cricket team of the province of Gauteng in South Africa....
.