Duncan McLachlan (cricketer)

Duncan Bell McLachlan (30 October 1893 – 15 September 1958) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played five matches of first-class cricket for Canterbury and Otago between 1913 and 1922.[1]

Duncan McLachlan

McLachlan in Mülheim, Cologne, 1918/19
Personal information
Full name	Duncan Bell McLachlan
Born	(1893-10-30)30 October 1893 Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Died	15 September 1958(1958-09-15) (aged 64) Chatswood, Australia
Bowling	Left-arm medium
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1912/13	Otago
1914/15–1921/22	Canterbury
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 5 Runs scored 13 Batting average 1.62 100s/50s 0/0 Top score 10 Balls bowled 820 Wickets 30 Bowling average 12.90 5 wickets in innings 3 10 wickets in match 2 Best bowling 7/57 Catches/stumpings 1/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 25 March 2022

A left-arm medium-pace bowler, McLachlan took 22 wickets in seven days in two first-class matches on Canterbury's northern tour in January 1915. On 6 and 7 January, against Hawke's Bay in Hastings, he took 7 for 57 and 5 for 17 in Canterbury's innings victory.[2] On 9, 11 and 12 January he took 4 for 59 and 6 for 43 against Wellington at the Basin Reserve, Wellington; Canterbury won by 92 runs.[3]

McLachlan served overseas with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War I.[4] He was part of the New Zealand occupation of Cologne in Germany immediately after the end of the war.[5]

Professionally McLachlan worked as a piano tuner. He died at Chatswood in Sydney in 1958 aged 64.[6]