STAT ATTACK - Dan's "six-pack" on debut

22 May 2019 | Cricket

(writes Andrew Hignell)

 

Dan Douthwaite returned match figures of 6/137 on his County Championship debut for Glamorgan at Derby – the best for 39 years by a debutant bowler. As the list below shows, only two bowlers have produced superior match figures during their first appearance in Championship cricket for the Welsh county:

Ezra Moseley                     7/152     v Essex at Swansea, 1980

Jack Nash                            6/131     v Sussex at Cardiff Arms Park, 1921

Dan’s efforts helped Glamorgan to a two-wicket victory, equaling the record for their narrowest winning margin batting last against the Peakites, having also won at Derby by that slender margin in 1952 – a time when the ground still had the vestiges of a racecourse (which had staged it's last races in 1939) with the wicket the other way round to what it is at present.

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