deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor bowling country death_place club fivefor batting fullname birth_place column source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls 2,878 27 december 1995 1 16 / & ndash ; 1953 1939 2011 & ndash ; 1959 1938 & ndash ; 17 may 1917 & ndash ; leg break england exeter , devon , england berkshire oxford university 2 right-handed douglas edmund young wandsworth , london , england first-class http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/23531.html cricinfo 1917 5 17 yes 442 50 & ndash ; / & ndash ; 20 douglas young -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

douglas young -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

douglas edmund young -lrb- 7 may 1917 -- 27 december 1995 -rrb- was an english cricketer .
young was a right-handed batsman who bowled leg break .
he was born at wandsworth , london and educated at king 's college school , wimbledon .
while studying at brasenose college , oxford , young made his first-class debut for oxford university cricket club against glamorgan in 1938 .
he made nineteen further first-class appearances for the university , the last of which came against the marylebone cricket club in 1939 .
he was awarded a blue in 1938 but in 1939 he played right up the university match but was left out of the side for the actual game , when he was twelfth man .
in his 20 first-class appearances , young scored 442 runs at an average of 17.68 , with a high score of 36 .
it was though with the ball that he stood out , taking 50 wickets at a bowling average of 27.48 , with best figures of 6/58 .
one of two five wicket hauls he took , these figures came against lancashire in 1938 .
following world war ii , young played second xi cricket for surrey , though could not force his way into their first team .
in 1953 he joined berkshire , making his debut against cornwall in the minor counties championship .
he played minor counties cricket for berkshire from 1953 to 1959 , making 49 appearances .
he died at exeter , devon on 27 december 1995 .
