Country: | England |
Fullname: | Leslie Eric McLean |
Birth Date: | 19 April 1918 |
Birth Place: | Lynton, Devon, England |
Death Place: | Guildford, Surrey, England |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Club1: | Hertfordshire |
Year1: | 1936 - 1939 |
Club2: | Oxford University |
Year2: | 1939 |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 3 |
Runs1: | 79 |
Bat Avg1: | 13.16 |
100S/50S1: | –/1 |
Top Score1: | 51 |
Hidedeliveries: | true |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 3/– |
Date: | 4 July |
Year: | 2019 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/17493.html Cricinfo |
Leslie Eric McLean (19 April 1918 - 16 December 1987) was an English first-class cricketer.
McLean was born in April 1918 at Lynton, Devon. He was educated at Bishop's Stortford College,[1] before going up to Christ Church, Oxford.[2] While studying at Oxford, he made his debut in first-class cricket for Oxford University against Derbyshire at Oxford in 1939. He made two further first-class appearances in 1939, against Lancashire and the Free Foresters.[3] He scored a total of 79 runs in these three matches, with a high score of 51.[4] He had made his debut in minor counties cricket for Hertfordshire in 1936, with McLean playing minor counties cricket until 1939, making a total of thirteen appearances in the Minor Counties Championship.[5]
His first-class and minor counties career was ultimately cut short by the Second World War. He served in the war with the Royal Marines, enlisting as a second lieutenant in November 1939. He was made an acting temporary lieutenant in March 1940, before being made a temporary lieutenant in April 1940. He died at Guildford in December 1987.