Donald Shearer

Donald Shearer
Personal information
Full name Edgar Donald Reid Shearer
Date of birth (1909-06-06)6 June 1909
Place of birth Hendon, England
Date of death 9 July 1999(1999-07-09) (aged 90)
Place of death Sudbury, England
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Casuals
Corinthian
Derry City
International career
England amateur
1936 Great Britain 1 (1)

Cricket information
BattingRight-handed
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 14
Runs scored 628
Batting average 24.15
100s/50s 0/4
Top score 72
Catches/stumpings 12/–
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Edgar Donald Reid Shearer CBE (6 June 1909 – 9 July 1999) was an amateur sportsman who played both association football and cricket at international levels.[1][2] Shearer became an OBE after World War II and a CBE in the 1970s.[3]

  1. ^ Butler, William (30 October 2016). The Irish amateur military tradition in the British Army, 1854–1992. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526108470 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Donald Shearer". Olympedia. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  3. ^ "Edgar Donald Reid Shearer". Cricket Europe. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2022.