Douglas Thomas Montague Birks (4 July 1919 – 26 February 2004) was an English

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. Birks was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. He was born at Roche, Cornwall, and was educated at Radley College. Birks played minor counties cricket for

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...

, making his debut for the county against

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in the 1938

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. He made two further appearances in 1938, before making five appearances in the 1939 Minor Counties Championship. Following World War II, he continued to play for Suffolk, making seventeen further appearances for the county, the last of which came against

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in the 1948 Minor Counties Championship. The following season he made a single first-class appearance for the Free Foresters against Cambridge University at Fenner's. In a match which was drawn, Birks batted once, scoring 3 runs before he was dismissed by Peter Hall. This was his only first-class appearance. He died at

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, Herefordshire on 26 February 2004, following a battle with myeloma.

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