DOUG WALTERS SIGNED AND FRAMED FULL SIZE CRICKET BAT

Limited Edition: Open 

Framed Size: 1100 x 420 x 100 (mm)

Signature: Personally signed by Doug Walters

Certificate of Authenticity: Yes

This is a wonderful piece of memorabilia that celebrates the career of former Australia cricket player and character, Doug Walters. The full size cricket bat is mounted in a professional and stylish wooden frame.

Dimensions: 1100mm x 420mm x 100mm

About Doug Walters

Kevin Douglas Walters MBE (born 21 December 1945) known as Doug Walters, is a former Australian cricketer. He was known as an attacking batsman, and also as a typical ocker.

Walters made his First Class debut for New South Wales against Queensland in the 1962-63 season. His highest score was 253 and his best bowling was 7/63, both against South Australia in the 1964-65 season. In the domestic Sheffield Shield competition he played 91 matches, scoring 5,602 runs at 39.73 and taking 110 wickets at 32.81.

Walters made his debut in Test cricket on 10 December 1965 at The Gabba against England in the 1965-66 Ashes series and quickly developed a reputation as a batsman who could 'make things happen' with a moment of brilliance on an important occasion. He scored 155 in his first Test innings and another century in his second Test. He was not at his best in England, averaging only 25.68 in 18 matches there, but elsewhere he was a quick-scoring batsman. 

Walters was denied an opportunity to tour South Africa in 1966-67 when he was conscripted to two years of National Service training and it wasn't until 1968 that he returned to the test arena. In the 1968-69 series against the West Indies, Walters was injured and unavailable for the first Test match, but in the remaining four Tests he scored a Bradman like 699 runs, at an average of 116.5, with a highest score of 242 (in the process he became the first player to score a century and a double century in a single Test). 

In 1969-70 he showed a weakness against the South African fast bowlers Peter Pollock and Mike Procter, ducking while leaving his bat upright like a submarine periscope. This weakness was exploited by England's John Snow in the 1970-71 Ashes series, who repeatedly sent down fast, short-pitched balls against Walters. Even so Walters made 205 not out for New South Wales against the tourists, 112 in the First Test and three fifties thereafter, but few runs in between, making 373 runs (37.30) in the series. 

He famously hit a century in a session at the WACA against England in 1974, where he hit  Bob Willis for six from the last ball of the day to bring up his ton. His 250 against New Zealand in 1977 is the highest by any batsman in the number six position. Walters was a part-time bowler, but his medium-paced "Golden Arm" broke many partnerships and yielded 49 Test wickets at 29.08. 

He wore the large sideburns popular in the 1960s and 1970s and when not on the field was seldom seen without a cigarette hanging from the corner of his mouth. He was also famous for his Laconic humour.

The Doug Walters Stand in the Sydney Cricket Ground is named after him. However, as of 2008, the Doug Walters Stand was renamed. There is currently a bar in the Victor Trumper Stand named after him.