Edward Desmond Russell Eagar was an English cricketer who as secretary and captain of Hampshire was instrumental, through organisation, captaincy and recruitment, in raising the county team from perennial also-rans to the point where, in the seasons after he retired from playing, it was runner-up and then, in 1961, the champions in the County Championship for the first time in its history.

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  • Edward Desmond Russell Eagar was an English cricketer who as secretary and captain of Hampshire was instrumental, through organisation, captaincy and recruitment, in raising the county team from perennial also-rans to the point where, in the seasons after he retired from playing, it was runner-up and then, in 1961, the champions in the County Championship for the first time in its history. As a cricketer, he was a right-handed middle-order batsman who bowled occasional slow left-arm orthodox spin. Eagar played for Gloucestershire from 1935-1939. He briefly played for Oxford University from 1938-1939. During the Second World War no first-class cricket was played in England. It was therefore seven years before Eagar resumed his county career with Hampshire, for whom he played for between 1946-1957, captaining the side for those eleven years. Eagar retired from first-class at the end of the 1958 County Championship Season after playing for the Marylebone Cricket Club. Eagar died in 1977 in Kingsbridge, Devon at the age of 59.
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  • Edward Desmond Russell Eagar was an English cricketer who as secretary and captain of Hampshire was instrumental, through organisation, captaincy and recruitment, in raising the county team from perennial also-rans to the point where, in the seasons after he retired from playing, it was runner-up and then, in 1961, the champions in the County Championship for the first time in its history.
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