Desmond Eagar

Desmond Eagar
Desmond Eagar
Personal information
Full name Edward Desmond Russell Eagar
Born 8 December 1917(1917-12-08)
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
Years Team
1935–1939 Gloucestershire
1938–1939 Oxford University
1946–1957 Hampshire
1952–1958 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.

Eagar played for Gloucestershire from 1935-1939. He briefly played for Oxford University from 1938-1939. 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 for between 1946–1957, captaining the side for those eleven years.

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

The cricket photographer Patrick Eagar is his son.[1]

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
George Taylor
Hampshire cricket captain
1946–1957
Succeeded by
Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie

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