Mordaunt Doll Explained

Mordaunt Doll
Fullname:Mordaunt Henry Caspers Doll
Birth Place:Camberwell, London
Birth Date:5 April 1888
Death Place:Devizes, Wiltshire
Family:Christian Doll (brother)
Batting:Right-handed
Club1:Marylebone Cricket Club
Club2:Cambridge University
Year2:1908
Club3:Hertfordshire
Year3:1907–1909
Club4:Middlesex
Year4:1912–1919
Columns:1
Column1:First-class
Matches1:43
Runs1:1,097
Bat Avg1:18.59
100S/50S1:1/0
Top Score1:102
Deliveries1:1,034
Wickets1:15
Bowl Avg1:43.66
Fivefor1:1
Tenfor1:0
Best Bowling1:5/52
Catches/Stumpings1:32/–
Source:http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/12217.html
Date:19 December
Year: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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Charterhouse register, 1872-1910 . Chiswick Press . London . 1911 . 700.