Alan McLean (New Zealand cricketer)

{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2020}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Alan McLean

| image =

| caption =

| country = New Zealand

| fullname =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|9|26|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|8|12|1911|9|26|df=yes}}

| death_place = Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm medium-pace

| club1 = Wellington

| year1 = 1947–48

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 4

| runs1 = 274

| bat avg1 = 54.80

| 100s/50s1 = 0/2

| top score1 = 86

| deliveries1 = 861

| wickets1 = 14

| bowl avg1 = 21.71

| fivefor1 = 0

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 4/25

| catches/stumpings1 = 4/0

| date = 20 May 2018

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/37888.html Cricinfo

}}

Alan McLean (26 September 1911 – 12 August 2003) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Wellington in the 1947-48 season.

A solid middle-order batsman and an accurate medium-pace bowler who was able to move the ball sharply off the wicket, McLean played for the Institute club in Wellington. He topped the Wellington Cricket Association averages in the 1936-37 season with 43 wickets at 11.23.{{cite news | work=The Evening Post | date=3 September 1937 | page=15 | title= Institute Old Boys' Club| url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19370903.2.154.3| accessdate=30 May 2018}}{{cite news | work= Auckland Star | date=11 November 1940 | page=10 | title= Flashes from Saturday’s Cricket| url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19401111.2.113| accessdate=30 May 2018}} In a match for a Wellington second team against Hawke's Bay in 1937-38 he took 5 for 9 off 10 overs in Hawke’s Bay’s first innings, then made the top score of the match with 51.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/261/261495.html| title = Hawke’s Bay v Wellington XI 1937-38| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate =10 May 2018}}

The Second World War intervened before McLean could play first-class cricket. A carpenter by trade, he served as a sapper with New Zealand forces in North Africa.{{cite web | url = http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/171385| title = Alan McLean| work = Online Cenotaph |publisher=Auckland War Memorial Museum| accessdate =30 May 2018}}

In 1947-48, at the age of 36, McLean played his only season of first-class cricket, a full season of four matches for Wellington. He made 41 and took 2 for 50 and 2 for 37 against Otago;{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/18/18325.html| title = Wellington v Otago 1947-48| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate =30 May 2018}} made 15 and 38 not out and took 4 for 25 and 2 for 47 against Canterbury;{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/18/18332.html| title = Canterbury v Wellington 1947-48| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate =30 May 2018}} and made 86 and took 2 for 51 and 0 for 50 against Auckland.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/18/18342.html| title = Auckland v Wellington 1947-48| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate =30 May 2018}} With 180 runs at an average of 60.00 and 12 wickets at 21.83, he was sixth in the national Plunket Shield batting averages and first in the bowling among those bowlers with 10 wickets or more. At the end of the season, he played for Wellington in a first-class match against the touring Fijian team, making 21 and 73 and taking 0 for 12 and 2 for 30.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/18/18383.html| title = Wellington v Fiji 1947-48| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate =30 May 2018}}