Leslie McLean

{{short description|English cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| country = England

| fullname = Leslie Eric McLean

| birth_date = 19 April 1918

| birth_place = Lynton, Devon, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1987|12|16|1918|4|19}}

| death_place = Guildford, Surrey, England

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| batting = Right-handed

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| club1 = Hertfordshire

| year1 = 1936–1939

| club2 = Oxford University

| year2 = 1939

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 3

| runs1 = 79

| bat avg1 = 13.16

| 100s/50s1 = –/1

| top score1 = 51

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = 3/–

| date = 4 July

| year = 2019

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/17493.html Cricinfo

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Leslie Eric McLean (19 April 1918 – 16 December 1987) was an English first-class cricketer.

McLean was born in April 1918 at Lynton, Devon. He was educated at Bishop's Stortford College,{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31380/all_teams.html |title=Teams Leslie McLean played for |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-05 |url-access=subscription}} before going up to Christ Church, Oxford.{{cite book |title=Oxford University Calendar |date=1943 |publisher=University of Oxford |pages=583 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vxJ1BNKewtgC |language=en}} While studying at Oxford, he made his debut in first-class cricket for Oxford University against Derbyshire at Oxford in 1939. He made two further first-class appearances in 1939, against Lancashire and the Free Foresters.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31380/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Leslie McLean |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-05 |url-access=subscription}} He scored a total of 79 runs in these three matches, with a high score of 51.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31380/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Leslie McLean |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-05 |url-access=subscription}} He had made his debut in minor counties cricket for Hertfordshire in 1936, with McLean playing minor counties cricket until 1939, making a total of thirteen appearances in the Minor Counties Championship.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31380/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html |title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Leslie McLean |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-05 |url-access=subscription}}

His first-class and minor counties career was ultimately cut short by the Second World War. He served in the war with the Royal Marines, enlisting as a second lieutenant in November 1939.{{London Gazette|issue=34724|date=3 November 1939|page=7409}} He was made an acting temporary lieutenant in March 1940,{{London Gazette|issue=34807|date=8 March 1940|page=1393}} before being made a temporary lieutenant in April 1940.{{London Gazette|issue=34854|date=21 May 1940|page=3031}} He died at Guildford in December 1987.