{{short description|English cricketer}} {{about|the English cricketer|the New Zealand Test cricketer|Doug Freeman|the American historian|Douglas Southall Freeman}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}} {{Use British English|date=February 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Douglas Freeman | image = | fullname = Douglas Percy Freeman | nickname = | birth_date = 21 July 1916 | birth_place = Sherborne, Dorset | death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|4|3|1916|7|21|df=yes}} | death_place = Westbury on Trym, Bristol | heightft = | heightinch = | batting = Left-handed | bowling = | role = | family = Edward Freeman (father)<br />Edward Freeman (grandfather)<br />Thomas Russell (great-uncle)<br />Tich Freeman (uncle) | club1 = Dorset | year1 = 1934–1948 | club2 = Kent | year2 = 1937 | hidedeliveries = true | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 1 | runs1 = 10 | bat avg1 = 5.00 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 6 | catches/stumpings1 = 0/– | date = 30 May | year = 2011 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/13200.html CricInfo }}
'''Douglas Percy Freeman''' {{post-nominals|MBE}} (21 July 1916 – 3 April 2013) was an English cricketer. Freeman was a left-handed batsman who played for Dorset County Cricket Club and Kent County Cricket Club.<ref name=ci>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/13200.html Douglas Freeman], CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-07-01.</ref> He was born at Sherborne in Dorset in 1916.
Freeman made his debut for Dorset in the 1934 Minor Counties Championship against Cornwall. He played Minor counties cricket for Dorset from 1934 to 1948, making 32 Minor Counties Championship appearances for the county with a highest score of 89 runs, made in 1935 against Devon.<ref name=pca>[http://www.thepca.co.uk/obituaries.html#Douglas Douglas Freeman] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170622192424/http://www.thepca.co.uk/obituaries.html#Douglas |date=22 June 2017 }}, Obituaries, Professional Cricketers' Association. Retrieved 2017-07-01.</ref><ref name=ca>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29540/29540.html Douglas Freeman], CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-07-01.</ref>
After playing for Kent Second XI in 1936, Freeman made eight appearances for the county Second XI in the 1937 Minor Counties Championship and played in one first-class cricket match against Somerset in the 1937 County Championship.<ref name=ca /> He made a total of ten runs in the match in a "crushing defeat" for the county.<ref name=pca /> He played for Somerset Second XI in 1939 before returning to play for Dorset after the Second World War.<ref name=ca /><ref name=carlaw>Carlaw, pp. 83–84. (Retrieved 2020-07-01.)</ref>
Freeman's father, Edward, his grandfather, also called Edward, and his great-uncle Thomas Russell, all played first-class cricket and his brother, another Edward, also played for Dorset.<ref name=pca /><ref name=ca /> His uncle was Tich Freeman who played for Kent between 1914 and 1936 and is the county's leading wicket-taker.<ref name=pca /><ref name=wis14>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/826611.html Freeman, Douglas Percy], Wisden Obituaries – 2013, ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', 2014. Retrieved 2017-07-01.</ref> When Freeman died at the age of 96 in 2013 at Westbury on Trym in Bristol he was Kent's oldest surviving player and the last surviving player who had played for the county before World War II.<ref name=pca /><ref name=wis14 /><ref name=kccc9apr13>[http://www.kentcricket.co.uk/news/kent-cricket-saddened-by-the-death-of-doug-freeman-kents-oldest-cricketer/ Kent Cricket saddened by the death of Doug Freeman – Kent’s Oldest Cricketer], Kent County Cricket Club, 2013-04-09. Retrieved 2017-07-01.</ref><ref name=pca13>[https://www.thepca.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/BTB-issue-13.pdf Douglas Freeman], ''Boundaries'', issue 10, p.11. The Professional Cricketers' Association, 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2018.</ref>
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==Bibliography== * {{cite book |last=Carlaw |first=Derek |title=Kent County Cricketers, A to Z: Part Two (1919–1939) |publisher=ACS |location=Cardiff |year=2020 |url=https://archive.acscricket.com/books/Kent_Cricketers_A_to_Z_Part_Two.pdf}}
==External links== * {{cricinfo|id=13200}}
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