Arthur Douglas "Sandy" Baxter (20 January 1910 – 28 January 1986) was a Scottish first-class cricketer who played with Lancashire, Middlesex and Scotland, as well as with various amateur teams in the 1930s.[1]

Arthur Baxter
Personal information
Full name
Arthur Douglas Baxter
Born(1910-01-20)20 January 1910
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died28 January 1986(1986-01-28) (aged 76)
Edenbridge, Kent, England
NicknameSandy
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast-medium
RoleBowler
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1929–37Scotland
1933–34Lancashire
1935–37MCC
1938Middlesex
First-class debut6 July 1929 Scotland v Ireland
Last First-class13 June 1939 Free Foresters v Cambridge University
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 42
Runs scored 273
Batting average 7.18
100s/50s –/–
Top score 26*
Balls bowled 8405
Wickets 189
Bowling average 21.75
5 wickets in innings 16
10 wickets in match 4
Best bowling 7–33
Catches/stumpings 10/–
Source: CricketArchive, 23 June 2013

He was educated at the preparatory school King's Mead School, at Seaford, Sussex, and in July 1930 he bowled Don Bradman in a non-first-class match for Scotland against Australia and to celebrate the school was given a half-day holiday to celebrate, though Bradman had scored 140 before he was out.[2] He was later educated at Loretto School in Scotland.[3]

Baxter was a highly enthusiastic cricket player for amateur teams, a fast bowler of in-swingers, a negligible tail-end batsman and a poor fielder.[3] Despite being only an irregular first-class player, he took five wickets in an innings 16 times and four times went on to take 10 or more wickets in a match; in 1935 when he played seven first-class games, the most he ever achieved in a single season, he headed the English bowling averages for players bowling in 10 or more innings, with 42 wickets at 13.08.[4] He toured Australia and New Zealand with the MCC in 1935–36. In a game for Lancashire against the touring West Indian side at Old Trafford in 1933, he took 5 for 10 runs in a 6 over spell.

Baxter became secretary and director of the paper manufacturing company Spicers Ltd.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Sandy Baxter". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  2. ^ Source: Kings Mead Year-Book Volume 1 1929-1933
  3. ^ a b "Obituaries". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1987 ed.). Wisden. p. 1226.
  4. ^ "First-class Bowling in England in 1935". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
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