Adam Duncan (cricketer)

Adam Seymour Dickson Duncan (8 June 1852 – 21 February 1940) was an Indian-born English lawyer and a first-class cricketer who played in fourteen matches, mainly for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), between 1873 and 1879.[1][2] He was born in Calcutta, Bengal.

Adam Duncan
Personal information
Full nameAdam Seymour Dickson Duncan
Born(1852-06-08)8 June 1852
Calcutta, Bengal, India
Died21 February 1940(1940-02-21) (aged 87)
Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England
BattingUnknown
BowlingUnknown
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1875Cambridge University
1873–1879Marylebone Cricket Club
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 14
Runs scored 313
Batting average 13.60
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 42
Catches/stumpings 5/–
Source: Cricket Archive, 25 April 2020

Duncan was educated at Eton College and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[3] Although he played as a batsman in a few school cricket matches, he did not appear in the Eton v Harrow games.[4] In his first year at Cambridge University in 1873 he was picked for trial games, but did not earn a game for the first eleven, although he played in a first-class match against the Cambridge side for "An England XI", when he scored 19 and 0.[5] Playing for a scratch amateur team against a university side was a frequent ploy used by the university cricket teams in both the 19th and early 20th centuries to give a further trial to a potentially promising player; Duncan went through the same rigmarole two years later in 1875, again selected for "An England XI", but this time with 36 in the only England innings he was the top-scorer (W. G. Grace made 24).[6] That led to selection for two Cambridge University matches, but after scoring 33 in his first innings for the university he had a poor second game and was not picked again. His remaining first-class cricket was a series of matches for the MCC, five of them in 1879, and the last of which included his highest first-class score, 42, made against Lancashire.[7]

Duncan graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1876; he became a solicitor, practising from Queen Victoria Street, London.[3]

He died in Hatfield, Hertfordshire on 21 February 1940, aged 87.

References
  1. "Adam Duncan". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  2. "Adam Duncan". espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  3. J. Venn and J. A. Venn. "Alumni Cantabrigienses: Adam Duncan". www.archive.org/Cambridge University Press. p. 352. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  4. "Miscellaneous Matches Played by Adam Duncan". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  5. "Scorecard: Cambridge University v An England XI". cricketarchive.com. 26 May 1873. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  6. "Scorecard: Cambridge University v An England XI". cricketarchive.com. 6 May 1875. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  7. "Scorecard: Marylebone Cricket Club v Lancashire". cricketarchive.com. 28 July 1879. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
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