Duncan Bell McLachlan (30 October 1893 – 15 September 1958) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played five matches of first-class cricket for Canterbury and Otago between the 1912–13 and 1921–22 seasons.[1]
 McLachlan in Mülheim, Cologne, 1918/19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Duncan Bell McLachlan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 October 1893 Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 15 September 1958 (aged 64) Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1912/13 | Otago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1914/15–1921/22 | Canterbury | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 25 March 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A left-arm medium-pace bowler, McLachlan took 22 wickets in seven days in two first-class matches on Canterbury's northern tour in January 1915. On 6 and 7 January, against Hawke's Bay in Hastings, he took 7 for 57 and 5 for 17 in Canterbury's innings victory.[2] On 9, 11 and 12 January he took 4 for 59 and 6 for 43 against Wellington at the Basin Reserve, Wellington; Canterbury won by 92 runs.[3]
McLachlan served overseas with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War I.[4] He was part of the New Zealand occupation of Cologne in Germany immediately after the end of the war.[5]
Professionally McLachlan worked as a piano tuner. He died at Chatswood in Sydney in 1958 aged 64.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Duncan McLachlan". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
- ^ "Hawke's Bay v Canterbury 1914-15". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
- ^ "Wellington v Canterbury 1914-15". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
- ^ "Duncan Bell McLachlan". Online Cenotaph. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ "Photo from page 03 of album WWI Photograph Album". National Army Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 86. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2