Duncan McLachlan (cricketer)

Duncan Bell McLachlan (30 October 1893 – 15 September 1958) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played five matches of first-class cricket for Canterbury and Otago between the 1912–13 and 1921–22 seasons.[1]

Duncan McLachlan
McLachlan in Mülheim, Cologne, 1918/19
Personal information
Full name
Duncan Bell McLachlan
Born(1893-10-30)30 October 1893
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Died15 September 1958(1958-09-15) (aged 64)
Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
BowlingLeft-arm medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1912/13Otago
1914/15–1921/22Canterbury
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 5
Runs scored 13
Batting average 1.62
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 10
Balls bowled 820
Wickets 30
Bowling average 12.90
5 wickets in innings 3
10 wickets in match 2
Best bowling 7/57
Catches/stumpings 1/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 25 March 2022

A left-arm medium-pace bowler, McLachlan took 22 wickets in seven days in two first-class matches on Canterbury's northern tour in January 1915. On 6 and 7 January, against Hawke's Bay in Hastings, he took 7 for 57 and 5 for 17 in Canterbury's innings victory.[2] On 9, 11 and 12 January he took 4 for 59 and 6 for 43 against Wellington at the Basin Reserve, Wellington; Canterbury won by 92 runs.[3]

McLachlan served overseas with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War I.[4] He was part of the New Zealand occupation of Cologne in Germany immediately after the end of the war.[5]

Professionally McLachlan worked as a piano tuner. He died at Chatswood in Sydney in 1958 aged 64.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Duncan McLachlan". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Hawke's Bay v Canterbury 1914-15". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Wellington v Canterbury 1914-15". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Duncan Bell McLachlan". Online Cenotaph. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
  5. ^ "Photo from page 03 of album WWI Photograph Album". National Army Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
  6. ^ McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 86. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2
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