# Doug Insole > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Doug_Insole > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Doug_Insole.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Insole > Source revision: 1342615053 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|English cricketer (1926–2017)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}} {{Use British English|date=February 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Doug Insole | image = Doug Insole G&P 2012.jpg | caption = | fullname = Douglas John Insole | birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|4|18|df=y}} | birth_place = [Clapton](/source/Upper_Clapton), London, England | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|8|6|1926|4|18|df=y}} | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm medium | columns = 2 | column1 = [Test](/source/Test_cricket) | matches1 = 9 | runs1 = 408 | bat avg1 = 27.19 | 100s/50s1 = 1/1 | top score1 = 110* | deliveries1 = – | wickets1 = – | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1= 8/– | column2 = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket) | matches2 = 450 | runs2 = 25,241 | bat avg2 = 37.61 | 100s/50s2 = 54/126 | top score2 = 219* | deliveries2 = 9,020 | wickets2 = 138 | bowl avg2 = 33.91 | fivefor2 = 1 | tenfor2 = 0 | best bowling2 = 5/22 | catches/stumpings2= 366/6 | international = true | country = England | testdebutagainst = West Indies | testdebutdate = 20 July | testdebutyear = 1950 | lasttestdate = 30 May | lasttestagainst = West Indies | lasttestyear = 1957 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/15399.html Cricinfo | date = 6 November | year = 2022 }} '''Douglas John Insole''' {{post-nominals|CBE}} (18 April 1926{{cite book |title=If The Cap Fits |last=Bateman |first=Colin |year=1993 |publisher=Tony Williams Publications |isbn=1-869833-21-X |page=98 }} – 5 August 2017) [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2017/08/06/former-england-selector-essex-captain-doug-insole-dies-aged Obituary] [The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph) was an English [cricket](/source/cricket)er, who played for [Cambridge University](/source/Cambridge_University_Cricket_Club), [Essex](/source/Essex_County_Cricket_Club) and in nine [Test matches](/source/Test_cricket) for [England](/source/English_cricket_team), five of them on the [1956–57 tour of South Africa](/source/English_cricket_team_in_South_Africa_in_1956%E2%80%9357), where he was vice-captain to [Peter May](/source/Peter_May_(cricketer)). After retiring from playing, he was prominent in cricket administration, and served as chairman of the England selectors and as President of the [Marylebone Cricket Club](/source/Marylebone_Cricket_Club) (MCC).{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/149597.html |title=The IPL is born |work=ESPN Cricinfo |date=18 April 2006 |access-date=18 April 2018}} ==Life and career== Insole was born in [Clapton](/source/Upper_Clapton), [London](/source/London), attended the [Monoux School](/source/Monoux_School), [Walthamstow](/source/Walthamstow), and lived most of his adult life in [Chingford](/source/Chingford). He read history at [St Catharine's College, Cambridge](/source/St_Catharine's_College%2C_Cambridge), where he was captain of [Cambridge University](/source/University_of_Cambridge)'s cricket team. Playing as an [amateur](/source/Amateur_status_in_first-class_cricket), he scored 20,113 [first-class](/source/first-class_cricket) runs for Essex, the ninth highest aggregate for the club. He played as a [batsman](/source/batsman) who also occasionally [bowled](/source/Bowler_(cricket)) and [kept wicket](/source/wicket-keeper), and was captain of the Essex team from 1950 to 1960. He was one of the [Wisden Cricketers of the Year](/source/Wisden_Cricketers_of_the_Year) in 1956. He was President of the [Marylebone Cricket Club](/source/Marylebone_Cricket_Club) (MCC) for twelve months, beginning on 1 October 2006. For his many services to cricket, Insole was appointed a [CBE](/source/Order_of_the_British_Empire) in 1979. Insole was chairman of selectors for [England](/source/England_cricket_team) in the 1960s, and in 1968, he was criticized for presiding over the non-selection of [Basil D'Oliveira](/source/Basil_D'Oliveira) for [a tour to South Africa](/source/D'Oliveira_affair). Only later did it become generally known that the selectors had been pressured into omitting D'Oliveira because he was a '[coloured](/source/coloured)' South African and his inclusion in a team to visit the country, then under [apartheid](/source/apartheid), was thought to be undiplomatic.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/aug/06/doug-insole-obituary|title=Doug Insole obituary|author=Peter Mason|website=[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)|date=6 August 2017}} Also during Insole's time [Geoffrey Boycott](/source/Geoffrey_Boycott) was dropped, in 1967 after having scored 246 not out. Boycott admitted to still feeling aggrieved about this over 40 years later, while commenting on the third Test between [New Zealand](/source/New_Zealand_cricket_team) and England at [Napier](/source/Napier%2C_New_Zealand) on 24 March 2008 and again during the ''[Test Match Special](/source/Test_Match_Special)'' commentary of England against the [West Indies](/source/West_Indies_cricket_team) at [Edgbaston](/source/Edgbaston_Cricket_Ground) on 7 June 2012, where he said that Insole "should have spelt his name with an A!"{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/18341799|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608055550/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/18341799|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 June 2012|title=England v West Indies, third Test, day one, Edgbaston as it happened|date=7 June 2012|publisher=[BBC](/source/BBC)|location=London|access-date=7 June 2012}} Again on 9 August 2014 during the 4th Test against India at Old Trafford, Insole's name was mentioned and Boycott reiterated his thoughts on how Insole's name should be spelt.TMS Insole was a first team footballer for the amateur [Corinthian-Casuals F.C.](/source/Corinthian-Casuals_F.C.), and played in the 1956 [FA Amateur Cup](/source/FA_Amateur_Cup) final, before they lost to [Bishop Auckland](/source/Bishop_Auckland_F.C.) in a replay. He managed the [1978–79](/source/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1978%E2%80%9379){{cricinfo|id=15399}} by David Liverman and [1982–83](/source/English_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1982%E2%80%9383) Ashes tours to Australia, and for nine years to 2006 was chair of the [European Cricket Council](/source/European_Cricket_Council).{{cite web | url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-development/content/story/252663.html | title=Roger Knight to succeed Doug Insole as ECC Chairman | work=ESPN Cricinfo | date=7 July 2006 | access-date=7 August 2017 | author=ECC}} Insole died on 5 August 2017, aged 91. His death was announced by Essex County Cricket Club the following day.{{cite web|url=http://www.essexcricket.org.uk/2017/08/06/doug-insole-1926-2017/|title=Doug Insole (1926-2017)|publisher=Essex County Cricket Club|date=6 August 2017}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * {{cricinfo|id=15399}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Insole, Doug}} Category:1926 births Category:2017 deaths Category:Corinthian-Casuals F.C. players Category:English cricketers Category:England Test cricketers Category:Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Category:Cambridge University cricketers Category:Wisden Cricketers of the Year Category:Presidents of the Marylebone Cricket Club Category:Essex cricketers Category:Essex cricket captains Category:People educated at Sir George Monoux College Category:England cricket team selectors Category:Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Category:Gentlemen cricketers Category:North v South cricketers Category:Free Foresters cricketers Category:Gentlemen of England cricketers Category:Cricketers from the London Borough of Hackney Category:Men's association football players not categorized by position Category:H. 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