{{short description|Australian-born English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | image = | country = England | fullname = Douglas Gray Spiro | birth_date = 21 December 1863 | birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1935|1|16|1863|12|21}} | death_place = Westminster, London, England | nickname = | family = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm medium | role = | club1 = Cambridge University | year1 = 1883–1885 | club2 = Marylebone Cricket Club | year2 = 1883–1890 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 12 | runs1 = 207 | bat avg1 = 10.35 | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 47 | hidedeliveries = true | catches/stumpings1 = 3/– | date = 13 December | year = 2022 | source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/douglas-spiro-20964 Cricinfo }}
'''Douglas Gray Spiro''' (21 December 1863 – 16 January 1935) was an Australian-born English cricketer who played in 12 first-class matches for Cambridge University and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1883 and 1890.<ref name="ca">{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32965/32965.html| title = Douglas Spiro | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com |url-access=subscription | accessdate = 27 May 2017}}</ref> He was born in Melbourne and died in Westminster, London.
Though Spiro was born in Australia, his father is noted in the Cambridge alumni directory as "Ferdinand" of Brighton.<ref name="venn">{{cite web | url = https://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri05univuoft#page/608/mode/2up | title = Alumni Cantabrigienses: Douglas Gray Spiro | author = J. Venn and J. A. Venn | volume = Part 5| publisher = www.archive.org/Cambridge University Press | page = 608 | accessdate = 27 May 2017}}</ref> Spiro was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, though after 1885 he transferred to Downing College, Cambridge.<ref name="venn"/> He played cricket for Harrow and appeared in the Eton v Harrow match at Lord's in both 1881 and 1882.<ref name="ca"/> As a cricketer, he played as a right-handed middle-order batsman; he also bowled right-arm medium-pace, though he did not bowl in first-class cricket.<ref name="ca"/> He was successful as a batsman only occasionally. In 1883, playing for MCC, he made 47 against Derbyshire.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/2/2720.html | title = Derbyshire v Marylebone Cricket Club |date = 9 July 1883 |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com |url-access=subscription | accessdate = 28 May 2017}}</ref> The following year, he made the same score again, this time for MCC against the Cambridge University side.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/2/2840.html | title = Marylebone Cricket Club v Cambridge University |date = 23 June 1884 |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com |url-access=subscription | accessdate = 28 May 2017}}</ref> That innings propelled him into the Cambridge side for the 1884 University Match against Oxford University, but he was not successful, making scores of 10 and 0.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/2/2846.html | title = Oxford University v Cambridge University |date = 30 June 1884 |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com |url-access=subscription | accessdate = 28 May 2017}}</ref>
On leaving Cambridge University, Spiro became a "mining agent" and was described as "of Maidenhead".<ref name="venn"/>
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==External links== *{{cricinfo|id=20964}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Spiro, Douglas}} Category:1863 births Category:1935 deaths Category:English cricketers Category:Cambridge University cricketers Category:Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Category:People educated at Harrow School Category:Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Category:Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge Category:Cricketers from Melbourne Category:Australian emigrants to the United Kingdom