Don Goodson

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Don Goodson
Personal information
Full nameDonald Goodson
Born(1932-10-15)15 October 1932
Eastwell, Leicestershire, England
Died13 September 2010(2010-09-13) (aged 77)
Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium-pace
RoleBowler
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1950–53 Leicestershire
First-class debut9 August 1950 Leicestershire  v  Essex
Last First-class 21 July 1953 Leicestershire  v  Surrey
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches9
Runs scored36
Batting average 4.00
100s/50s–/–
Top score22*
Balls bowled720
Wickets 7
Bowling average 56.28
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match–
Best bowling3/43
Catches/stumpings 1/–
Source: CricketArchive, 19 August 2013

Donald Goodson (15 October 1932 – 13 September 2010) was an English cricketer. [1] He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played first-class cricket for Leicestershire between 1950 and 1953. He was born in Eastwell, Leicestershire and died at Cape Town, South Africa.

Cricket Team sport played with bats and balls

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 20-metre (22-yard) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at the wicket with the bat, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this and dismiss each player. Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground. When ten players have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee in international matches. They communicate with two off-field scorers who record the match's statistical information.

Leicestershire County Cricket Club Cricket Team

Leicestershire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Leicestershire. It has also been representative of the county of Rutland. The club's limited overs team is called the Leicestershire Foxes. Founded in 1879, the club had minor county status until 1894 when it was promoted to first-class status pending its entry into the County Championship in 1895. Since then, Leicestershire have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England.

Eastwell, Leicestershire village in United Kingdom

Eastwell is a village and ecclesiastical parish in Leicestershire, England.

Goodson played as an amateur player in a single first-class match for Leicestershire in 1950, scoring just one run in two innings and failing to take a wicket. [2] He reappeared in eight games in the middle of the 1953 season, but again had very little success.

Amateur status had a special meaning in English cricket. The amateur in this context was not merely someone who played cricket in his spare time but a particular type of first-class cricketer who existed officially until 1962, when the distinction between amateurs and professionals was abolished and all first-class players became nominally professional.

In 1957, Goodson took five wickets in an innings in a rain-hit non-first-class inter-service match while playing for the Army. [3] This encouraged Leicestershire, which by that time had a second eleven playing in the Minor Counties Championship, to give him a further trial, but although he played regularly for the second team across 1958, he did not reappear in first-class cricket, and the 1953 matches were his last.

The Army cricket team is a cricket side representing the British Army. The team played a number of first-class matches between 1912 and 1939, although a combined "Army and Navy" side had played two games against a combined Oxford and Cambridge team in 1910 and 1911. In 1927 the Army played the touring New Zealanders, and in 1933 they played the touring West Indians.

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References

  1. ↑ "Player Profile: Don Goodson". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  2. ↑ "Scorecard: Leicestershire v Essex". www.cricketarchive.com. 9 August 1950. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
  3. ↑ "Scorecard: Army v Royal Navy". www.cricketarchive.com. 9 August 1957. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
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