Douglas Jardine

Douglas Robert Jardine was a cricketer who played 22 Test matches for England. He captained the side in 15 of those matches between 1931 and 1934. A right-handed batsman, he is best known for captaining the English team during the 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia. He died of lung cancer in 1958, aged 57, after a long career in banking...