11 Facts About Doug Padgett

Douglas Ernest Vernon Padgett was an English cricketer, who played more than 500 first-class matches and represented England in Tests twice, both in 1960.

Cricket writer Colin Bateman recorded Padgett was, "nimble, happy anywhere in the order, he was a great technician and one of the best batsmen of his era on a bad wicket".

Doug Padgett scored more than 1,000 runs in 1956, and in the County Championship-winning side of 1959 he was the leading batsman with more than 2,000 runs.

Doug Padgett usually batted at No 3, though he occasionally opened the innings.

In 1960, a tour by the South Africans, widely perceived as weak, led the England Test selectors to experiment with new batsmen, and Doug Padgett played in the fourth and fifth matches.

Doug Padgett was not a great success, and was one of a number of England players criticised in The Oval Test match for slow batting in the second innings.

Doug Padgett went to New Zealand the following winter on an extensive Marylebone Cricket Club tour, but he was never picked again for England.

Doug Padgett failed to convert his innings into big scores, albeit registering 50 one hundred and twenty nine times in his first-class career, he reached the century mark only on thirty two occasions.

Doug Padgett scored more than 1,000 runs in twelve County Championship seasons.

Doug Padgett retired from playing in 1971, much to the frustration of the new captain, Geoffrey Boycott, who relied on his counsel.

Doug Padgett then captained Yorkshire's second eleven, becoming assistant, then head coach.