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English former Test and One Day International cricketer

Derek Raymond Pringle (born 18 September 1958) is a Kenyan born English former Test and One Day International cricketer for England, and is now a cricket journalist. He was a part of the English squads which finished as runners up at the 1987 Cricket World Cup and as runners up at the 1992 Cricket World Cup.

Pringle was born in Nairobi, Kenya. His father Donald Pringle, who had moved there to work as a landscaper, played cricket for Kenya and represented East Africa at the 1975 Cricket World Cup; he died in a car accident a few months later, days after his son's 17th birthday. Pringle was educated at St. Mary's School (Nairobi), Felsted School and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He played for Essex between 1978 and 1993. He was a member of the successful Essex sides of the 1980s and early 1990s, alongside cricketers such as Graham Gooch, Mark Waugh, Nasser Hussain, John Lever and Neil Foster, which in that period won the County Championship six times. As an undergraduate, Pringle played for Cambridge University. In 1982, while captain of the university, he was selected for England Pringle went on to play 30 Tests, the last of which was in 1992, scoring 695 runs and taking 70 wickets. He also played in 44 One Day Internationals between 1982 and 1993. He appeared in two World Cups and was a member of England's 1992 World Cup Final team.

Pringle eventually became a cult figure late in his career. His always popular warm up routine before coming on to bowl involved him lying on his back and apparently wrestling with an invisible octopus. He once damaged his back when his chair collapsed, forcing him to withdraw from a Test match, although the story usually (but wrongly) told is that he sustained the injury whilst writing a letter. After his playing days he became a cricket correspondent, firstly with The Independent and then The Daily Telegraph. In 2004 Pringle was threatened with deportation by the Mugabe administration in Zimbabwe during an England cricket tour of the country. He has eclectic tastes in fashion and music in comparison to his former team mates. Pringle's interests include archaeology, photography, writing, real ale, and more obscure musical trends. He was a Technical Advisor to the Oman cricket team in 2015, helping them qualify for their first ever World T20 Tournament the following year.