Please answer the following question: Facts: - lastyear: 1959 - source: http://www.cricketarchive.com/archive/players/31/31828/31828.html cricketarchive - role: opening or middle order batsman - fivefor: - - bowling: right-handed medium pace - birth date: 26 september 1918 - lastfor: commonwealth xi - debutyear: 1946 - deliveries: balls 3890 - columns: 1 - lastagainst: england xi - death date: 9 january 1994 - s/s: 25/81 - year: 1946-59 2008 - name: laddy outschoorn - death place: westminster , england - birth place: colombo , sri lanka - date: 1918 9 26 yes - type: first-class - debutdate: 31 july - column: first-class - catches/stumpings: 277 / - - debutagainst: combined services - fullname: ladislaus frederick outschoorn - tenfor: - - lastdate: 8 september - matches: 346 - batting: right-handed batsman - debutfor: worcestershire - runs: 15496 - wickets: 33 - club: worcestershire Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of laddy outschoorn .
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ladislaus frederick outschoorn -lrb- 26 september 1918 -- 9 january 1994 -rrb- , usually known as laddy outschoorn , was a cricketer : a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for worcestershire in the years after the second world war .he was born in colombo , ceylon -lrb- now sri lanka -rrb- .in 1939 and 1940 , outschoorn played two matches for the straits settlements against the federated malay states and made his first-class debut in july 1946 against combined services at new road , though he made only 3 and 9 .his career proper began in 1947 , when he played 21 times for the county , although averaging a distinctly mediocre 23.39 with a top score of only 66 .he improved markedly the following summer , passing 1,000 runs for the first time and hitting his first century , exactly 100 not out against derbyshire ; he also gained his county cap that summer .may 1948 also saw him take his first wickets , when he took three in a match against gloucestershire in may ; his victims -lrb- george emmett , tom goddard and charlie barnett -rrb- were all test cricketers .although outschoorn never surpassed the 12 wickets he claimed in 1948 , his batting continued to improve , and he passed 1,000 runs in seven of the next eight seasons , helped in 1949 by his career-best score of 215 not out against northamptonshire .his best year was probably 1951 , when he made 1,761 runs at 35.93 -lrb- his best season 's average -rrb- including four centuries , as well as taking 43 catches in the field , second only to his 54 in 1949 .outschoorn 's batting declined in the late 1950s , although he rallied himself for his last season , 1959 , when he made 1,271 first-class runs .only five of outschoorn 's 346 first-class games were for a team other than worcestershire , all for a commonwealth xi against an england xi , with all these matches being played at hastings .in fact , his very last first-class innings of all , in september 1959 , was for the commonwealth xi : he made 58 before...