Don Goodson

Don Goodson

Personal information
Full name	Donald Goodson
Born	(1932-10-15)15 October 1932 Eastwell, Leicestershire, England
Died	13 September 2010(2010-09-13) (aged 77) Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium-pace
Role	Bowler
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1950–53	Leicestershire
First-class debut	9 August 1950 Leicestershire v Essex
Last First-class	21 July 1953 Leicestershire v Surrey
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 9 Runs scored 36 Batting average 4.00 100s/50s –/– Top score 22* Balls bowled 720 Wickets 7 Bowling average 56.28 5 wickets in innings – 10 wickets in match – Best bowling 3/43 Catches/stumpings 1/–
Source: CricketArchive, 19 August 2013

Donald Goodson (15 October 1932 – 13 September 2010) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played first-class cricket for Leicestershire between 1950 and 1953. He was born in Eastwell, Leicestershire and died at Cape Town, South Africa.

Goodson played as an amateur player in a single first-class match for Leicestershire in 1950, scoring just one run in two innings and failing to take a wicket. He reappeared in eight games in the middle of the 1953 season, but again had very little success.

In 1957, Goodson took five wickets in an innings in a rain-hit non-first-class inter-service match while playing for the Army. This encouraged Leicestershire, which by that time had a second eleven playing in the Minor Counties Championship, to give him a further trial, but although he played regularly for the second team across 1958, he did not reappear in first-class cricket, and the 1953 matches were his last.