Jack Doig
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| Full name | John Allen Doig | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
24 March 1872 Beechworth, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died |
24 November 1951 (aged 79) Invercargill, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1914-15 to 1920-21 | Southland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricket Archive, 4 May 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Allen Doig (24 March 1872 – 24 November 1951) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Southland from 1915 to 1921.
Personal life
Doig's family moved from Australia to New Zealand when he was a small boy. Doig and his first wife Alexandra (née Broome) had two daughters. She died in 1906 and he married Alice (née Hast) in 1907; they had a son and a daughter. He worked at various times as a blacksmith, insurance agent and sports store owner. He lived most of his life in Invercargill.[1]
Cricket career
Doig opened the bowling for Southland in March 1911 and took six wickets when Southland beat Rangitikei to become the first winners of the Hawke Cup.[2] When Southland had first-class status from 1914-15 to 1920-21 he played in seven of their eight matches, taking 38 wickets at 15.78.
Southland's first-class debut came in the match against Otago at Rugby Park, Invercargill, in February 1915. At the age of 42 Doig made his own first-class debut, along with nine of his team-mates. He opened the bowling and took 7 for 46 in the first innings, but Otago won comfortably.[3] In the match against Otago at Rugby Park in March 1919 he bowled unchanged through both innings, taking 5 for 43 off 24 eight-ball overs in the first innings, and 5 for 41 off 32.3 overs in the second, but Otago won again.[4]
In Southland's only first-class victory, against Otago at Rugby Park in March 1920, Doig took 2 for 74 and 6 for 21, he and his opening partner Dan McBeath taking 19 wickets in the match.[5] In his last first-class match, in March 1921, a few days before his 49th birthday, he took 5 for 102 for Southland against the touring Australians at Rugby Park, including the wickets of Vic Richardson and Alan Kippax.[6] In his five first-class matches at Rugby Park he took 31 wickets at an average of 12.70.[7]
He was still opening the bowling for Southland at the age of 50 in 1923 when they played MCC.[8] He was a member of the Invercargill Cricket Club for forty-six years, and he was also prominent in Southland in playing or administering Rugby football, hockey, athletics, basketball, boxing and golf.[9]