Donald Steele

Donald Macdonald Steele (17 ga watan Agustan shekara ta 1892 - 13 ga watan Yulin shekara ta 1962) ya kasance dan wasan cricket wanda ya buga wasan cricket na farko a Kudancin Australia daga 1912 zuwa 1921. Daga baya ya zama fitaccen likita a Kudancin Australia.

 Iyali da rayuwar farko 
Don Steele yana ɗaya daga cikin 'yan'uwa shida. 'Yan uwansa David Macdonald Steele  da Ken Steele  sun kasance likitoci waɗanda suka yi aiki a matsayin jami'an kiwon lafiya a fagen a Yaƙin Duniya na I. Ken ya kuma buga wasan kurket na farko ga Kudancin Australia kafin yaƙin.

Don ya halarci Kwalejin Prince Alfred, Adelaide, inda ya taka leda a gasar XI ta farko na shekaru shida daga 1907 zuwa 1912, inda ya jagoranci tawagar a cikin shekaru uku da suka gabata. Daga nan ya yi karatun likitanci a Jami'ar Adelaide, ya cancanci zama likita a ƙarshen 1919. 

 Ayyukan wasan cricket 
Steele ya buga wasan sa na farko a Kudancin Australia a watan Janairun 1912 yayin da yake makaranta. Ya zama dan wasa na yau da kullun a cikin tawagar jihar a 1912-13 kuma ya kasance mai aiki a gefe har zuwa ƙarshen kakar 1920-21, karatu da ayyukan sana'a sun ba da izini.

A wasansa na farko a kakar 1912-13 ya zira kwallaye 113 ba a cikin minti 175 a kan New South Wales a cikin nasara a Kudancin Australia. Ya zira kwallaye na biyu a shekara ta 1914-15 lokacin da ya zira kwallayen 100 a cikin minti 135, kuma a kan New South Wales.

Ya jagoranci Kudancin Australia a wasanni uku na karshe na kakar Sheffield Shield ta 1920-21, inda ya zira kwallaye 107 a wasan farko, a kan Victoria. Ya gama kakar a saman matsakaicin batting na Kudancin Australia, tare da gudu 280 a 56.00.

An zaba shi ya zama kyaftin din tawagar Australiya don yawon shakatawa a New Zealand a ƙarshen kakar.  Koyaya, bai iya zuwa yawon shakatawa ba, bayan ya shirya yin aiki a matsayin locum a Port Lincoln. Ayyukansa na sana'a sun hana shi yin wasa da kowane wasan kurket na farko.

 Rayuwa ta baya 
Ya yi aiki a matsayin likita a Port Lincoln na wasu shekaru  kafin ya koma aiki a Adelaide, inda shi da matarsa suka zauna a Glenelg. 

Yayinda yake kallon Wasan gwaji a Adelaide Oval a 1925 an kira shi don kula da dan wasan Ingila mai suna Tich Freeman, wanda ya karya wuyansa yayin ƙoƙarin kamawa. Steele ya sanya wuyan hannu a cikin raguwa sannan ya kai Freeman asibiti.[1]

Ɗansa Ian shi ma likita ne.

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