Desmond Eagar

Desmond Eagar
Personal information
Full name Edward Desmond Russell Eagar
Born (1917-12-08)8 December 1917
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Died 13 September 1977(1977-09-13) (aged 59)
Kingsbridge, Devon, England
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
19351939 Gloucestershire
19381939 Oxford University
19461957 Hampshire
19521958 Marylebone Cricket Club
Career statistics
Competition FC
Matches 363
Runs scored 12178
Batting average 21.86
100s/50s 10/52
Top score 158*
Balls bowled 1972
Wickets 31
Bowling average 47.77
5 wickets in innings 1
10 wickets in match
Best bowling 6/66
Catches/stumpings 369/
Source: Cricinfo, 13 August 2009

Edward Desmond Russell Eagar (born 8 December 1917 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; died 13 September 1977 at Kingsbridge, Devon) was an English cricketer who as secretary and captain of Hampshire was instrumental, through organisation, captaincy and recruitment, in raising the county team from perennial also-rans to the point where, in the seasons after he retired from playing, it was runner-up and then, in 1961, the champions in the County Championship for the first time in its history. As a cricketer, he was a right-handed middle-order batsman who bowled occasional slow left-arm orthodox spin, and a fearless fielder at short leg.[1]

Eagar was educated at Cheltenham College and played for Gloucestershire from 1935 to 1939, and for Oxford University in 1938 and 1939. During the Second World War no first-class cricket was played in England. It was therefore seven years before Eagar resumed his county career with Hampshire, for whom he played between 1946 and 1957, captaining the side for those twelve seasons.

Eagar retired from first-class cricket at the end of the 1958 season after playing for the Marylebone Cricket Club. He died in 1977 in Kingsbridge, Devon, at the age of 59.

The cricket photographer Patrick Eagar is his son.[2]

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
George Taylor
Hampshire cricket captain
19461957
Succeeded by
Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie
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