Don Pringle, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Don Pringle

English cricketer

Date of Birth: 01-May-1932

Date of Death: 04-Oct-1975

Profession: cricketer

Nationality: Kenya

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Don Pringle

  • Donald James Pringle (1 May 1932 – 4 October 1975) was an East African cricketer.
  • He was born at Prestwich in Lancashire, England and represented East Africa in two One day Internationals in the inaugural 1975 World Cup.
  • His son, the cricketer Derek Pringle, represented Cambridge University, Essex and England and is currently the cricket correspondent of The Daily Telegraph. Pringle moved to Kenya as a landscape consultant in the late 1950s.
  • Derek was born in Kenya in 1958.
  • Like his son, Don was a fast-medium bowler.
  • At 43 years of age he opened the bowling in two of East Africa's three matches in 1975, without taking a wicket. He was killed in a car crash later that same year, returning home from a cricket match in Limuru in which he'd taken 6 wicket for 16.

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