Mordaunt Doll

Mordaunt Doll

Personal information
Full name	Mordaunt Henry Caspers Doll
Born	(1888-04-05)5 April 1888 Camberwell, London
Died	30 June 1966(1966-06-30) (aged 78) Devizes, Wiltshire
Batting	Right-handed
Relations	Christian Doll (brother)
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1907–1920	Marylebone Cricket Club
1908	Cambridge University
1907–1909	Hertfordshire
1912–1919	Middlesex
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 43 Runs scored 1,097 Batting average 18.59 100s/50s 1/0 Top score 102* Balls bowled 1,034 Wickets 15 Bowling average 43.66 5 wickets in innings 1 10 wickets in match 0 Best bowling 5/52 Catches/stumpings 32/–
Source: [1], 19 December 2018

Mordaunt Henry Caspers Doll (5 April 1888 – 30 June 1966) was an English first-class cricketer.

The son of Charles Fitzroy Doll, he was educated at Charterhouse School where he excelled as a schoolboy cricketer between 1905 and 1907. He scored 195 runs against Westminster School in his final year at school as he and RLL Braddell put on a stand of 214 in the last hour. From Charterhouse he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge.^[1]

He was a hard hitting right-handed batsman who represented MCC (1907–1920), Cambridge University (1908), Demobilised Officers (1919), Etceteras XI (1910), Hertfordshire (1907–1909), Middlesex (1912–1919) and PF Warner's XI (1919).

Doll scored 102 not out in a county record eighth wicket stand of 182 in two hours with Joe Murrell for Middlesex against Nottinghamshire at Lord's in 1913. He toured the West Indies in 1912/1913 with an MCC team led by Arthur Somerset.

His brother, Christian, was also a first-class cricketer.

References

1. "Charterhouse register, 1872-1910". London: Chiswick Press. 1911. p. 700.

External links

Mordaunt Doll at ESPNcricinfo