David Doughty
{{Short description|English cricketer}}
{{EngvarB|date=August 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = David Doughty
| country = England
| fullname = David George Doughty
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|11|9|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Chiswick, Middlesex, England
| death_date = 2024
| death_place =
| batting = Left-handed
| bowling = Slow left-arm orthodox
| role = Bowler
| club1 = Somerset
| year1 = {{nowrap|1963–1964}}
| type1 = FC
| debutdate1 = 11 May
| debutyear1 = 1963
| debutfor1 = Somerset
| debutagainst1 = Essex
| lastdate1 = 8 May
| lastyear1 = 1964
| lastfor1 = Somerset
| lastagainst1 = Australians
| type2 = LA
| onetype2 = true
| debutdate2 = 22 May
| debutyear2 = 1963
| debutfor2 = Somerset
| debutagainst2 = Glamorgan
| columns = 2
| column1 = First-class
| matches1 = 17
| runs1 = 104
| bat avg1 = 6.93
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 22
| deliveries1 = 1,357
| wickets1 = 35
| bowl avg1 = 20.28
| fivefor1 = 2
| tenfor1 = 1
| best bowling1 = 6/58
| catches/stumpings1 = 6/–
| column2 = List A
| matches2 = 1
| runs2 = 20
| bat avg2 = 20.00
| 100s/50s2 = 0/0
| top score2 = 20
| deliveries2 = 42
| wickets2 = 1
| bowl avg2 = 31.00
| fivefor2 = 0
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 1/31
| catches/stumpings2 = 0/–
| date = 24 December
| year = 2009
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3523/3523.html CricketArchive
}}
David George Doughty (9 November 1937 – 2024){{cite web |title=David Doughty |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3523/3523.html |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=5 May 2025}} was an English cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Somerset in 17 matches in the 1963 and 1964 seasons. He also appeared in one one-day match in the Gillette Cup.
Biography
Doughty was born in November 1937 at Chiswick, Middlesex. A slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler and lower-order left-handed batsman, he played second eleven cricket for Middlesex, Surrey and Leicestershire between 1959 and 1961, often batting quite high in the order. But it was as a left-arm spinner that he was recommended to Somerset by Arthur Wellard.{{Cite book | title = Somerset Cricket: A Post-War Who's Who | author = David Foot | author2 = Ivan Ponting | name-list-style = amp | edition = 1993 | publisher = Redcliffe Books | isbn = 1-872971-23-7 | page = 41 }} He played in 16 first-class matches for the county in the successful 1963 season, when Somerset finished third in the County Championship, equalling their highest-ever placing to that point.
In those 16 matches, Doughty took 35 wickets at the low average of 18.14 runs per wicket.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3523/f_Bowling_by_Season.html | title = First-class Bowling in each Season by David Doughty|publisher = www.cricketarchive.com |url-access=subscription | accessdate = 24 December 2009}} His most successful match came against Derbyshire at Weston-super-Mare when he took six wickets for 58 runs in the first innings and five for 44 in the second for match figures of 11 for 102.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/26/26356.html | title = Scorecard: Somerset v Derbyshire|date = 10 August 1963 |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com |url-access=subscription | accessdate = 24 December 2009}} These were the only occasions on which he took five wickets in an innings, and he had lost his place in the team by the end of the season. In 1964, he made only a single first-class appearance, and though it brought his highest first-class score, 22, it did not bring any wickets, and he did not play first-class cricket again.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/26/26668.html | title = Scorecard: Somerset v Australians |date = 6 May 1964 |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com |url-access=subscription | accessdate = 24 December 2009}}
Doughty's single List A appearance produced a curiosity. Playing in Somerset's first-ever one-day match in the inaugural Gillette Cup against Glamorgan in 1963, he took one wicket and then went in to bat at No 10 with Somerset at 121 for eight, chasing a total of 207. Doughty scored 20 and put on 75 for the ninth wicket with Brian Langford, who made 56.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/26/26065.html | title = Scorecard: Glamorgan v Somerset |date = 22 May 1963 |publisher = www.cricketarchive.com |url-access=subscription | accessdate = 24 December 2009}} In 2009, the stand was still Somerset's ninth-wicket List A cricket record and the oldest surviving List A record.{{Cite book | title = Playfair Cricket Annual | edition = 2009 | publisher = Headline | isbn = 0-7553-1746-7 }}