Arthur Baxter

Arthur Baxter

Personal information
Full name	Arthur Douglas Baxter
Born	(1910-01-20)20 January 1910 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	Edenbridge, Kent, England
Nickname	Sandy
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm fast-medium
Role	Bowler
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1929–37	Scotland
1933–34	Lancashire
1935–37	MCC
1938	Middlesex
First-class debut	6 July 1929 Scotland v Ireland
Last First-class	13 June 1939 Free Foresters v Cambridge University
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 42 Runs scored 273 Batting average 7.18 100s/50s –/– Top score 26* Balls bowled 8405 Wickets 189 Bowling average 21.75 5 wickets in innings 16 10 wickets in match 4 Best bowling 7–33 Catches/stumpings 10/–
Source: CricketArchive, 23 June 2013

Arthur Douglas Baxter (20 January 1910 – 28 January 1986), known as "Sandy" Baxter, was a Scottish first-class cricketer who played with Lancashire, Middlesex and the Scottish national side, as well as with other amateur teams across the 1930s.

He was educated at the preparatory school King’s Mead School, at Seaford, East Sussex and in July 1930 he bowled Don Bradman in a non-first-class match against Australia and to celebrate the school was given a half-day holiday to celebrate, though Bradman had scored 140 before he was out. He was later educated at Loretto School.

Baxter was a highly enthusiastic cricket player for amateur teams, a fast bowler of in-swingers, a negligible tail-end batsman and a poor fielder. Despite being only an irregular first-class player, he took five wickets in an innings 16 times and four times went on to take 10 or more wickets in a match; in 1935 when he played seven first-class games, the most he ever achieved in a single season, he headed the English bowling averages for players bowling in 10 or more innings, with 42 wickets at 13.08. In a game for Lancashire against the touring West Indian side at Old Trafford, he took 5 for 10 runs in a 6 over spell.