Alan Lorimer Dowding (born 4 April 1929) is a former Australian first-class cricketer who played with Oxford University, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the Commonwealth XI and Free Foresters.Dowding gave up a promising Australian rules football career when was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and moved to England. An South Australian representative at the 1948 Perth Amateur Carnival, Dowding was also league footballer with Sturt.