Country: | England |
Fullname: | Donald Morris Parry |
Birth Date: | 8 February 1911 |
Birth Place: | Hatch End, Middlesex, England |
Death Place: | Stalham, Norfolk, England |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Bowling: | Right-arm medium |
Club1: | Cambridge University |
Year1: | 1931 - 1932 |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 17 |
Runs1: | 574 |
Bat Avg1: | 22.07 |
100S/50S1: | –/2 |
Top Score1: | 87 |
Hidedeliveries: | true |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 6/– |
Date: | 1 January |
Year: | 2022 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/18778.html Cricinfo |
Donald Morris Parry (8 February 1911 — 30 March 2002) was an English first-class cricketer.
Parry was born at Hatch End in February 1911. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School,[1] before going up to St Catharine's College, Cambridge.[2] While studying at Cambridge, he played first-class cricket for Cambridge University Cricket Club in 1931 and 1932, making seventeen appearances.[3] He scored a total of 574 runs in his seventeen matches at an average of 22.07,[4] with a highest score of 87 not out, which was made against the Free Foresters in 1931.[5] Parry later served in the Second World War with the Scots Guards, being commissioned as a second lieutenant in December 1942. He relinquished his commission after the war in October 1946. Parry died in March 2002 at Stalham, Norfolk.