Duncan McLachlan (cricketer)

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
Died15 September 1958(1958-09-15) (aged 64)
Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
BowlingLeft-arm medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1912/13Otago
1914/15–1921/22Canterbury
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

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 the 1912–13 and 1921–22 seasons.

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. 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.

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

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