Alan Dowding

Alan Lorimer Dowding (born 4 April 1929) is an Australian former first-class cricketer who played for Oxford University, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the Commonwealth XI and Free Foresters. Dowding gave up a promising Australian rules football career when he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and moved to England. A South Australian representative at the 1948 Perth Amateur Carnival, Dowding was also league footballer with Sturt. He studied at Balliol College while at Oxford University and had previously attended St Peter's College and Adelaide University back home.

Alan Dowding

Alan Lorimer Dowding (born 4 April 1929) is an Australian former first-class cricketer who played for Oxford University, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the Commonwealth XI and Free Foresters. Dowding gave up a promising Australian rules football career when he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and moved to England. A South Australian representative at the 1948 Perth Amateur Carnival, Dowding was also league footballer with Sturt. He studied at Balliol College while at Oxford University and had previously attended St Peter's College and Adelaide University back home.