| Arthur Baxter | |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Fullname: | Arthur Douglas Baxter |
| Nickname: | Sandy |
| Birth Date: | 20 January 1910 |
| Birth Place: | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Death Place: | Edenbridge, Kent, England |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm fast-medium |
| Role: | Bowler |
| Club1: | Scotland |
| Year1: | 1929–37 |
| Club2: | Lancashire |
| Year2: | 1933–34 |
| Club3: | MCC |
| Year3: | 1935–37 |
| Club4: | Middlesex |
| Year4: | 1938 |
| Type1: | First-class |
| Debutdate1: | 6 July |
| Debutyear1: | 1929 |
| Debutfor1: | Scotland |
| Debutagainst1: | Ireland |
| Lastdate1: | 13 June |
| Lastyear1: | 1939 |
| Lastfor1: | Free Foresters |
| Lastagainst1: | Cambridge University |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 42 |
| Runs1: | 273 |
| Bat Avg1: | 7.18 |
| 100S/50S1: | –/– |
| Top Score1: | 26 |
| Deliveries1: | 8405 |
| Wickets1: | 189 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 21.75 |
| Fivefor1: | 16 |
| Tenfor1: | 4 |
| Best Bowling1: | 7–33 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 10/– |
| Date: | 23 June |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/26/26948/26948.html CricketArchive |
Arthur Douglas "Sandy" Baxter (20 January 1910 – 28 January 1986) was a Scottish first-class cricketer who played with Lancashire, Middlesex and Scotland, as well as with various amateur teams in the 1930s.[1]
He was educated at the preparatory school King's Mead School, at Seaford, Sussex, and in July 1930 he bowled Don Bradman in a non-first-class match for Scotland against Australia and to celebrate the school was given a half-day holiday to celebrate, though Bradman had scored 140 before he was out.[2] He was later educated at Loretto School in Scotland.[3]
Baxter was a highly enthusiastic cricket player for amateur teams, a fast bowler of in-swingers, a negligible tail-end batsman and a poor fielder.[3] Despite being only an irregular first-class player, he took five wickets in an innings 16 times and four times went on to take 10 or more wickets in a match; in 1935 when he played seven first-class games, the most he ever achieved in a single season, he headed the English bowling averages for players bowling in 10 or more innings, with 42 wickets at 13.08.[4] He toured Australia and New Zealand with the MCC in 1935–36. In a game for Lancashire against the touring West Indian side at Old Trafford in 1933, he took 5 for 10 runs in a 6 over spell.
Baxter became secretary and director of the paper manufacturing company Spicers Ltd.[1]