Alan Dowding

Alan Dowding
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	Unley (en) , 4 ga Afirilu, 1929
ƙasa	Asturaliya
Mutuwa	Chipping Norton (mul) , 8 ga Yuni, 2023
Karatu
Makaranta	University of Adelaide (en) Balliol College (en)
Sana'a
Sana'a	cricketer (en) da Australian rules football player (en)
Kyaututtuka	gani Tallafin karatu na Rhodes  (1950)

Alan Lorimer Dowding (4 ga Afrilu 1929 - 8 ga Yuni 2023) ya kasance ɗan wasan ƙwallon ƙafa na Australiya na farko wanda ya buga wa Jami'ar Oxford, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), Commonwealth XI da Free Foresters . Ya zama malamin makaranta.

Rayuwa da aiki

Dowding ya ba da kyakkyawan aikin kwallon kafa na Australiya lokacin da aka ba shi Rhodes Scholarship kuma ya koma Ingila. Wakilin Kudancin Australia a 1948 Perth Amateur Carnival, Dowding ya kasance dan wasan kwallon kafa tare da Sturt. Ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Balliol yayin da yake Jami'ar Oxford kuma a baya ya halarci Kwalejin St Peter da Jami'ar Adelaide a gida.

Daga 1951 zuwa 1953, Dowding ya kasance mai ba da gudummawa na yau da kullun a cikin ƙungiyar ƙwallon ƙafa ta Jami'ar Oxford, yawanci a matsayin mai buga ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙasa guda biyar amma kuma yana buga ƙwallaye a cikin tsari na farko. A wasan farko na uku kawai, Dowding ya zira kwallaye 105 a kan Nottinghamshire. Ya dawo da ƙarni na baya lokacin da ya yi 103 ba a cikin nasara a kan Free Foresters a wasansa na gaba ba.

Ayyukansa a 1952 sun haɗu, amma ya zira kwallaye 69 a kan Indiya. A shekara ta 1952 ya kuma buga wasanni biyu na farko na Commonwealth XI kuma ya sake buga wa Indiya kwallo, tare da innings na farko 54 da 35 a karo na biyu.

An nada shi kyaftin din Oxford a 1953, Dowding ya jagoranci tawagar a wasanni 14 na farko, gami da wasa tare da tawagar Australia mai yawon shakatawa. Ya zo kusa da zira kwallaye na ƙarni a kan Yorkshire amma Ray Illingworth ya buga shi da 99.

Ya buga wa duka Free Foresters da MCC daga 1954 zuwa 1956. Ya yi kawai rabin ƙarni huɗu daga jimlar wasanni goma a wannan lokacin, kodayake matsakaicin sa a 1956 ya kasance mai kyau 44. Yayinda yake wasa tare da MCC a cikin abin da zai zama wasan farko na biyu na karshe, Dowding ya ɗauki wicket guda ɗaya na aikinsa lokacin da ya kama kuma ya buga Bob Barber na Cambridge. Ya kasance kawai bowling saboda Cambridge suna bin karamin kashi na huɗu, kuma kwallaye uku da suka hada da nasarar da aka samu, daga bat na Ted Dexter.

Dowding ya auri Jennifer Hughes a Aldingbourne, Sussex, a watan Agustan shekara ta 1954. Ya zama malamin makaranta. Ya kasance masanin kimiyya a Kwalejin Radley daga 1969 zuwa 1994. Ya mutu a ranar 8 ga Yuni 2023, yana da shekaru 94.