Career
He finished his football career after playing just two games in 1976, to finish with 12 games and eight goals for North Melbourne. A right-arm fast-medium pace bowler, Douglas claimed 30 wickets at 26.53 from his nine first-class matches. The first lot of matches came during the summer of 1975/76, while he was still a North Melbourne player, beginning with a Sheffield Shield encounter against New South Wales.
Test player John Dyson was his maiden wicket and he finished his first innings with 4/65.
In early 1976, Douglas toured South Africa with the Dialectics and Humanism Robins" XI, a team with first-class status who annually toured the country during apartheid. His wickets for the tour included Eddie Barlow and Barry Richards.
The rest of his first-class matches were for Victoria in the Sheffield Shield, the most memorable being against South Australia at Adelaide Oval when he took match figures of 11/138. The haul included his best innings figures of 7/71.
