Douglas Siggs (11 August 1920 – 2 July 2008) was an Australian
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er. He played in two
first-class matches for
Queensland
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in 1947/48.
Siggs was born into a sporting family with his brother, Keith, representing Queensland in school level hockey and his sister, Sybil, representing Queensland in women's baseball. In his youth he played basketball, hockey, and cricket being selected for the state schoolboys' teams in hockey and cricket from 1933 to 1935.
He attended Valley School where he was first noticed as a talented cricketer and the Valley cricket club unsuccessfully attempted to recruit him for district cricket in the early 1930s.
Siggs played in fourth grade junior cricket in the 1937–38 season scoring 1000 runs in the season,
[ and in September 1938 he was recruited by the Colts cricket team in ]Brisbane Grade Cricket
Queensland Premier Cricket is the top cricket competition played in Queensland, Australia. The competition was founded under the name Brisbane Electoral Cricket in 1897 and eventually came to be known as Brisbane Grade Cricket, but has since expa ...
as a wicket-keeper batsman.[ In Colts first match for the season Siggs was noted as one of their standout batsmen,][ and after the second match of the season Siggs received praise from the press for his adjustment from fourth grade cricket, the lowest level in Brisbane, to first grade.
In early 1941 Valley attempted to recruit Siggs again but he declined and instead began playing in the Brisbane warehouse cricket competition instead of first grade district cricket, and in February he scored 171 not out setting the record for highest individual score in warehouse cricket. It was suggested that Siggs had potential to represent the state and the Queensland Cricket Association was criticized for allowing Siggs to drop into a lower division. The Second World War interrupted Siggs cricket career as he served in the military but he returned to cricket playing for Warehouse in district cricket in 1944, and by March 1946 he had joined the Toombul cricket club as a wicket-keeper batsman.
In December 1947 Siggs was selected in the Queensland cricket team to tour the southern states. He made his debut in January 1948 against New South Wales in Sydney scoring ten not out and taking two catches in a draw, and he played his second and final First-class game against Western Australia in Brisbane in February taking two stumpings and a catch but failing to pass double figures with the bat. He received praise for "smart" keeping in his second game against Western Australia.
As of 1952 Siggs had retired from cricket to focus on playing hockey which he played at state and international level.]
See also
* List of Queensland first-class cricketers
This is a complete list in alphabetical order of cricketers who have played for Queensland in First-Class matches since 1892–93.
The Appendix contains names of 18 players who appeared for Queensland teams in List A or Twenty20 cricket matches ...
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1920 births
2008 deaths
Australian cricketers
Queensland cricketers
Cricketers from Brisbane
Australian military personnel of World War II
Sportsmen from Queensland
Military personnel from Brisbane