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Batting style
  
Right-hand bat

1912-1919
  
Middlesex

1907-1920
  
MCC

Name
  
Mordaunt Doll


1908
  
Cambridge University

Role
  
Cricket Player

1907-1909
  
Hertfordshire

Education
  
Charterhouse School

Full name
  
Mordaunt Henry Caspers Doll

Born
  
5 April 1888 (
1888-04-05
)
Camberwell, London, England

Died
  
June 30, 1966, Devizes, United Kingdom

Mordaunt Henry Caspers Doll (5 April 1888 – 30 June 1966) was an English cricketer.

Doll was educated at Charterhouse where he excelled as a schoolboy cricketer (1905–1907). He scored 195 against Westminster in his last season. He and RLL Braddell put on a stand of 214 in the last hour. From Charterhouse he went on to Trinity College, Cambridge.

He was a hard hitting right-handed batsman who represented MCC (1907–1920), Cambridge University (1908), Demobilised Officers (1919), Etceteras XI (1910), Hertfordshire (1907–1909), Middlesex (1912–1919) and PF Warner's XI (1919).

Doll scored 102* in a county record eighth wicket stand of 182 in two hours with Joe Murrell for Middlesex versus Nottinghamshire at Lord's in 1913.

He also toured the West Indies in 1912/1913 with an MCC team led by Arthur Somerset.

References

Mordaunt Doll Wikipedia