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Duncan Albert Sharpe (born in Rawalpindi, 3 August 1937) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in three Tests in 1959. Sharpe is an Anglo-Pakistani, and is one of only four Christians to have played Test cricket for Pakistan. (The others are Wallis Mathias, Antao D'Souza and, until his conversion to Islam, Yousuf Youhana/Mohammad Yousuf.)〔(Youhana's leap of faith )〕 Sharpe played his first first-class match as a middle-order batsman for a Railways and Baluchistan side against the touring MCC side in Multan in 1955-56. In his next match, in 1957-58 for Punjab A against Bahawalpur, he kept wicket. Apart from his Tests he kept wicket during most of his career in Pakistan. He was twelfth man for two Tests when the West Indies toured Pakistan in 1958-59, and he toured England with Pakistan Eaglets, a team of promising young players, in 1959, scoring 1608 runs on a three-month tour of non-first-class matches.〔Gideon Haigh, ''Silent Revolutions'', Black Inc, Melbourne, 2006, p. 286.〕 After nine first-class matches and 255 runs at an average of 21.25 and a top score of 67, Sharpe made his Test debut for Pakistan against Australia in Dacca on 13 November 1959. Batting at number five, he scored 56 and 35, more runs than any of his team-mates in a low-scoring match that Pakistan lost. He was not successful in the next two Tests. He made his first first-class century later that season, 118 for a Combined XI against the touring Indian Starlets in Lahore. In 1960-61 he scored 109 for Lahore against Rawalpindi and Peshawar in the Ayub Trophy semi-final in Lahore. Sponsored by Barry Jarman, he emigrated to Australia in 1961〔Gideon Haigh, ''The Summer Game'', Text, Melbourne, 1997, p.137.〕 and played Sheffield Shield cricket with South Australia alongside the likes of Gary Sobers and Jarman from 1961-62 to 1965-66. He hit 50 not out in the first Sheffield Shield match of the season in 1961-62 against Western Australia but was less successful thereafter and played irregularly. His highest score for South Australia was 72 in the first match of the 1965-66 season against Victoria, but his next match was also his last; like his first, it was against the touring MCC - for whom Ken Barrington and Jim Parks had played in both matches. Sharpe lives with his wife Gillian in Melbourne. They have six children.〔Gideon Haigh, ''Silent Revolutions'', Black Inc, Melbourne, 2006, p. 284.〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Duncan Sharpe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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