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{{Short description|English cricketer and cricket administrator}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2016}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = David Walsh
| image =
| country = England
| international =
| fullname = David Robert Walsh
| nickname =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1946|12|17|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Mumbai|Bombay]], [[India]]
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm medium
| role =
| club1 = [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]]
| year1 = 1966–1969
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 39
| runs1 = 1508
| bat avg1 = 25.55
| 100s/50s1 = 2/6
| top score1 = 207
| deliveries1 = 240
| wickets1 = 6
| bowl avg1 = 21.50
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 3/34
| catches/stumpings1 = 13/–
| date = 15 March
| year = 2014
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22709.html Cricinfo
}}
'''David Robert Walsh''' (born 17 December 1946, [[Mumbai|Bombay]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]) is a former English [[first-class cricket]]er and current cricket administrator. He is also a historian.

==Education==
Walsh was educated at [[Marlborough College]], where he captained the First XI in 1965<ref>''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 1966, p. 764.</ref> and played in the annual match for the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC) Schools XI against [[Combined Services cricket team|Combined Services]] at [[Lord's]].<ref>''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 1966, p. 343.</ref> He went up to [[Brasenose College, Oxford|Brasenose College]], [[Oxford University]].

==Cricket career==
A middle-order batsman, Walsh made his first-class debut for [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]] in 1966, scoring 56 against [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]] in his second match,<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/27/27994.html Oxford University v Hampshire 1966]</ref> but was unable to maintain his form and lost his place in the side. He struggled again in 1967, but kept his place in a weak side, and "fought his way doggedly out of his past to achieve reliability".<ref>''Wisden'' 1968, p. 677.</ref> He played all 15 of Oxford's matches, scoring 325 runs at an average of 16.25 with a top score of 46.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33597/f_Batting_by_Season.html David Walsh batting by season]</ref>

In the six matches he played in 1968 he was more successful, and he finished with 300 runs at 33.33. He hit 76 not out in the second innings against [[Glamorgan County Cricket Club|Glamorgan]] ("a splendid defensive innings")<ref>''Wisden'' 1969, p. 393.</ref> and 65 and 28 against [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] at Lord's, adding 131 for the second wicket with the captain, [[Frederick Goldstein|Fred Goldstein]]. In the third match in 1969 he "produced a variety of strokes hitherto unseen from him"<ref>''Wisden'' 1970, p. 736.</ref> when he scored 207 against [[Warwickshire County Cricket Club|Warwickshire]], with 32 fours and two sixes, adding 270 for the sixth wicket with [[Stuart Westley]].<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/29/29977.html Oxford University v Warwickshire 1969]</ref> He also scored 138 and 41 against D.H. Robins' XI.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/30/30156.html D.H. Robins' XI v Oxford University 1969]</ref> He finished the season with 748 runs at 37.40, and played in his third [[The University Match (cricket)|University match]].

He played seven matches between 1966 and 1972 for [[Sussex County Cricket Club|Sussex]] Second XI,<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33597/Second_Eleven_Championship_Matches.html David Walsh Second Eleven Championship matches]</ref> but all his first-class cricket was for Oxford University.

==Later career==
After two years teaching at [[Melbourne Grammar School]], Walsh was appointed to [[Tonbridge School]] in 1972 and spent the rest of his career there, retiring in 2009 as Second Master. He was Chairman of Headmasters' Conference Schools cricket for twenty years. He has held various administrative positions with the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC), and is a trustee of the MCC Foundation.<ref>[http://mccfoundation.co.uk/who-we-are/whos-who/ Who's who in the MCC Foundation] Retrieved 26 October 2015.</ref>

Walsh is the author of three books. ''A Duty to Serve: Tonbridge School and the 1939-45 War'' was published by Third Millennium in 2011; ''Public Schools and the Great War: The Generation Lost'', co-written with Sir [[Anthony Seldon]], was published in 2013 by [[Pen and Sword Books|Pen & Sword]]; ''Public Schools and the Second World War'', again co-authored with Sir Anthony Seldon, was published by Pen & Sword in August 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=Public Schools and the Second World War |url=https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Public-Schools-and-the-Second-World-War-Hardback/p/17849 |website=Pen & Sword |accessdate=11 October 2020}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33597/33597.html David Walsh at CricketArchive]

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