Malcolm Dolman
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| Full name | Malcolm Charles Dolman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
14 June 1960 North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Slow left-arm chinaman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1981/82 – 1982/83 | South Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricket Archive, 21 September 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Malcolm Charles Dolman (born 14 June 1960) is an Australian former cricketer.
Born in North Adelaide, South Australia, Dolman started bowling Left-arm unorthodox spin (or "chinaman") at primary school and was first noticed as a promising bowler aged 14.[1] He began appearing in representative schoolboy sides and made the Australian Young Cricketers team to England in 1977, playing two unofficial One Day Internationals against England Young Cricketers,[2] and an Australian U/19s tour to Sri Lanka, playing in an unofficial Test match.[3]
Coached by former Test spinner Rex Sellers,[1] Dolman also showed great promise in Adelaide Grade cricket and played colts matches for South Australia,[2] although he was kept from first-class cricket for two years to mature him.[1] This just intensified support for Dolman, who was being called "possibly the most innovative bowler in Australian cricket for a decade"[1] and had former Test player Jack Fingleton calling for his inclusion in the national side before his first-class debut.[4]
Dolman finally made his first-class debut for South Australia on 8 January 1982 against Queensland at the Adelaide Oval, taking 4/114 (his best bowling figures) and 2/47.[5]
Following his successful first-class debut, Dolman was recruited by Warwickshire County Cricket Club to play in the 1982 Second XI Championship, where he played six matches, taking 39 wickets at 14.90, with a best return of 7/38 against Leicestershire Second XI, and scoring 174 runs at 29.00, with a highest score of 82 against Leicestershire.[6]
Called "a dapper little figure", Dolman's performances continued to impress, with another former Test spinner, Ashley Mallett, calling him the most exciting spin prospect he had ever seen[7] and English cricket writer David Frith also enthusiastic about Dolman's cricketing future.[7]
Oddly, with all these calls for national selection, Dolman's second season of first-class cricket proved to be his last, playing only a single match, against the touring English side on 31 October 1982, taking 2/72.[8]
Dolman was never picked again for South Australia but did coach Adelaide University to an A-grade district premiership[9] before retiring from cricket to concentrate on his career, initially as a teacher before switching to consulting not-for-profit organisations on developing sponsorship and fundraising programs and coordinating high profile community programs.[9]
References
- Frith, D. (1984) The Slow Men, Richard Smart Publishing. ISBN 0-7255-1540-6.
- Ryan, C. (2009) Golden Boy, Allen & Unwin, Sydney. ISBN 978-1-74175-067-6.
Footnotes and citations
- 1 2 3 4 Coward, M. "Dolman, the wrong-un who has finally got it right", The Age, 13 January 1982, p. 23.
- 1 2 "Other Matches played by Malcolm Dolman". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- ↑ "Sri Lanka Under-19s v Australia Under-19s". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- ↑ Ryan, p. 128.
- ↑ "South Australia v Queensland". CricketArchive. 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2011.
- ↑ "SECOND ELEVEN CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHES PLAYED BY MALCOLM DOLMAN". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
- 1 2 Frith, p. 179
- ↑ "South Australia v England XI". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
- 1 2 "Leading Teams Australia". Leading Teams. 2011. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
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