David Dunlop

David Edward Logan Dunlop (8 May 1855 – 7 January 1898) was a New Zealand cricketer who played ten first-class matches for Canterbury between 1884 and 1888. Life and career Dunlop was born in Glasgow in Scotland and educated at Loretto School in Musselburgh, near Edinburgh. He went to Australia and lived in Melbourne before moving on to New Zealand. A powerfully-built man, Dunlop was a leg-spinner who usually opened the bowling, and a middle-order batsman. In Canterbury's annual match against Otago in 1884-85 he took 5 for 69 and 5 for 44 and made 23 and 22 not out. In November 1886 Dunlop was Canterbury's leading bowler against the touring Australians, taking 5 for 50 and 3 for 17 as the Australians struggled in a drawn match. In the first innings he bowled skilfully into a strong wind, varying his pace and moving the ball through the air to bowl all five of his victims, all of them Test players. Against Wellington a few weeks later he bowled unchanged throughout both innings to take 4 for 29 and 6 for 7 for match figures of 39–22–36–10 (five-ball overs).