David Edward Logan Dunlop (8 May 1855 – 7 January 1898) was a New Zealand

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er who played ten

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between 1884 and 1888.

Life and career

Dunlop was born in

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in Scotland and educated at

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, near

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. He went to Australia and lived in

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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

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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

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all five of his victims, all of them

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players. Against

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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). Dunlop moved back to Australia in the early 1890s, working in the gold mines of the Murchison district of

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. As the underground manager of the Champion Extended mine in Nannine in January 1898 he was investigating a malfunctioning pump 175 feet below the surface when part of the temporary bailing machinery fell on him and killed him.

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