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New Zealand Cricket Team In South Africa In 1953–54
The New Zealand national cricket team toured South Africa from October 1953 to February 1954 and played a five match Test series against the South Africa national cricket team. South Africa won the Test series 4–0. The tour was the first by a representative New Zealand side to South Africa and the tourists embarked on their visit without having won a Test match since they had been granted full member status of the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1930.New Zealanders in South Africa, 1953–54 '''', 1955, pp. 786–811. Retrieved 2021-08-08.Williamson M (2008 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Cheetham
John Erskine Cheetham (26 May 1920 – 21 August 1980) was a South African cricketer who played in 24 Test matches Test match in some sports refers to a sporting contest between national representative teams and may refer to: * Test cricket * Indoor cricket, Test match (indoor cricket) * Test match (rugby union) * Test match (rugby league) * Test match (associa ... between 1949 and 1955, captaining South African cricket team, South Africa in his last 15 Test matches. He later served as president of the South African Cricket Association. Cricket playing career A middle-order batsman, Cheetham captained South Africa from 1952 to 1955, leading them to a drawn series in South African cricket team in Australia in 1952-53, Australia in 1952–53, victories away and at home to New Zealand cricket team, New Zealand in South African cricket team in New Zealand in 1952-53, the 1952–53 season and the New Zealand cricket team in South Africa in 1953-54, 1953–54 season, and a narrow 3– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Burtt
Thomas Browning Burtt (22 January 1915 – 24 May 1988) was a New Zealand cricketer who played in ten Tests from 1947 to 1953. Domestic career In his last first-class match, for Canterbury against the MCC in 1954–55, he hit 24 off one over from Johnny Wardle. In first-class cricket, he played 84 games, mostly for Canterbury, between 1943 and 1955, taking 408 wickets at 22.19. His brother Noel also played for Canterbury, as did his nephew Wayne Burtt. In 1937 and 1938 he also represented New Zealand at hockey. Trivia His 128 wickets taken on the 1949 tour of England is a record for New Zealand. In Wisden, Charles Bray said of him, "The bulk of the bowling fell on the tubby, cheerful T.B. Burtt, slow left-arm, immaculate length, good flight, who attacked the off-stump so accurately that he constantly tied down the opposing batsmen." International career He played ten consecutive Tests over six years, bowling long spells, taking wickets, and scoring useful runs in the tail, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Poore
Matt Beresford Poore (1 June 1930 – 11 June 2020) was a New Zealand cricketer who played 14 Test matches for New Zealand in the 1950s. He was born in Christchurch. Domestic career A right-handed middle order batsman and handy off-spin bowler, Poore played for Canterbury from 1950–51 to 1957–58, then returned for three matches in 1961–62. His highest score was 142 opening the batting against Central Districts in 1954–55, a match in which the next highest score was 55. It was the highest score in the Plunket Shield in the 1954–55 season. His other century was 103, opening the batting against Auckland in 1956-57 after taking 4 for 72 (figures of 47.2–22–72–4) in the first innings. His best bowling was 5 for 27 against Indian Universities in the final match of the 1955-56 tour. Commenting on Poore's innings of 70 in his second match for Canterbury in 1950–51, Dick Brittenden wrote: "His graceful driving and easy footwork marked him out as a future Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Overton
Guy William Fitzroy Overton (8 June 1919 – 7 September 1993) was a New Zealand international cricketer who played three Test matches in 1953–54. In domestic cricket he represented Otago from 1945–46 to 1955–56. Early career A sheep farmer in Southland, R.T. Brittenden, ''New Zealand Cricketers'', A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, 1961, pp. 126–28. Overton played a number of games for Southland in the 1940s as a right-arm opening bowler before making his first-class debut for Otago. In 1944–45 he took 8 for 24 and 3 for 10 in a drawn two-day match against Otago. In 1945–46, after taking 4 for 28 and 6 for 13 for Southland against Otago, and 4 for 12 and 2 for 13 against North Otago, he played for Otago against the touring Australians, taking 3 for 86 in the first innings, including Lindsay Hassett as his first first-class victim. He established himself in the Otago side in 1946–47. In his first Plunket Shield match, against Canterbury, he took a hat-trick. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Mooney
Francis Leonard Hugh Mooney (26 May 1921 – 8 March 2004) was a New Zealand cricketer who played in 14 Test matches as a batsman and wicket-keeper between 1949 and 1954. He played for Wellington Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand (second largest in the North Island ... from 1941–42 to 1954–55, and toured England in 1949 and South Africa in 1953–54. References External links * * 1921 births 2004 deaths New Zealand Test cricketers Wellington cricketers North Island cricketers Wicket-keepers 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrie Miller
Lawrence Somerville Martin Miller (31 March 1923 – 17 December 1996) was a cricketer who played 13 Test matches for New Zealand between 1953 and 1958, and played Plunket Shield cricket for Central Districts and Wellington. Cricket career A tall left-handed batsman, Miller was a late developer who made his first class debut at 27 when Central Districts entered the Plunket Shield for the 1950–51 season. Batting in the middle order he top-scored in the first match with 46, and again in the second match with 64, when Central Districts had their first victory. He did not play in 1951–52, but returned in force in 1952–53: 103 not out against Wellington, 128 not out and 89 not out against Canterbury, 77 and 31 against Otago, and 43 against Auckland, amassing 471 runs at 157.00. He played in the two Tests later that season against South Africa, making 17, 13 and 44, and was selected to tour South Africa in 1953–54. He failed there though, making only 47 runs in four Tests inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Leggat
Ian Bruce Leggat (born 7 June 1930) is a New Zealand former cricketer who played in one Test match in 1954. He was a middle-order batsman, a medium-pace bowler, and a slips fieldsman. His cousin, Gordon Leggat, also played Test cricket for New Zealand in the 1950s. Early life Leggat was born in Invercargill, New Zealand. He attended Nelson College from 1944 to 1948, where he was a prefect and played for the school's 1st XI cricket and 1st XV rugby teams. After leaving school, he worked as a survey draftsman. Cricket career Leggat played first-class cricket for Central Districts from 1950–51 to 1961–62. In 1952–53 he and Harry Cave added 239 for the ninth wicket for Central Districts against Otago at Dunedin. Leggat scored 142 not out batting at number 10. It was his first fifty in first-class cricket; he did not score another until 1958–59. This innings helped him to score 212 runs at 53.00 in 1952–53; he also took 7 wickets at 40.14. He was a surprise selection f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Dempster
Eric William Dempster (25 January 1925 – 15 August 2011) was a New Zealand cricketer who played in five Test matches in 1953 and 1954, before becoming an international umpire. Cricket career A left-arm spinner and useful lower-order batsman, Dempster played first-class cricket for Wellington from 1947–48 to 1960–61. His best first-class bowling figures of 5 wickets for 46 runs came in the match against Orange Free State at Bloemfontein in 1953–54. He scored his only century, 105, for Wellington against Canterbury at Wellington in the 1956–57 Plunket Shield. He made his Test debut in the Second Test against South Africa in Auckland in 1952–53, and toured South Africa the following season, playing in four of the five Tests. His best performance in Tests was in the Fourth Test in 1953–54 in Johannesburg: he made 21 not out batting at number eight in the first innings then, when New Zealand followed on, he opened and top-scored with 47 in the second innings. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Chapple
Murray Ernest Chapple (25 July 1930 – 31 July 1985) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played 14 Test matches over 13 years, scoring three fifties with a highest score of 76. He captained New Zealand in one Test in 1966. Playing career Chapple was a right-handed middle-order batsman and left-arm medium-pace bowler who bowled left-arm spin later in his career. In a first-class career that began when he was 19 and ended when he was 41, Chapple played for Canterbury (1949–50, 1952–53 to 1960–61) and Central Districts (1950–51 to 1951–52, 1962–63 to 1965–66), toured South Africa with the New Zealand teams in 1953–54 and 1961–62, and captained New Zealand in the First Test against England in 1965–66. Chapple came to national prominence in 1952–53 when, after four Plunket Shield seasons in which his highest score was 79, he scored 165 and 88 opening the batting for Canterbury against the touring South Africans. He was selected for the Second Test against South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Blair (cricketer)
Robert William Blair (born 23 June 1932) is a former cricketer who played 19 Test matches for New Zealand. Cricket career Blair was a fast bowler who was never quite able to carry his enormous success for Wellington in the Plunket Shield over into the Test arena. In 59 matches for Wellington from 1951–52 to 1964–65 he took 330 wickets at an average of 15.16. In his best season, he took 46 wickets in the five matches of 1956–57 at an average of 9.47, twice taking nine wickets in an innings. The next season, he took 34 at 11.20, then in a trial match at the end of the season he took five wickets in each innings for North Island against South Island. But in the series that followed a few months later in England, he took only three wickets in three Tests, at an average of 70. He achieved his best Test match figures, 7 for 142, in what turned out to be his last Test, against South Africa at Auckland in 1963–64. Blair holds the record for the lowest career batting average by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Bell (cricketer)
William Bell (5 September 1931 – 23 July 2002) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Canterbury, Auckland and New Zealand from 1949 to 1959. Bell attended Christchurch Boys' High School. A leg spin and googly bowler and lower-order batsman, Bell had played only five first-class games when he was picked for the New Zealand tour of South Africa in 1953-54 when regular spinner Alex Moir was left out of the touring party. An early return of four wickets against Eastern Province suggested he might do well, but in two Test match appearances, at Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, he took just two wickets, and was never picked again.''Wisden ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', or simply ''Wisden'', colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. The description "Bible of cricket" (or variations thereof) has been applied to ''Wi ...'' 2003, p. 1614. References External links * 1931 births 2002 deaths People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Beck (cricketer)
John Edward Francis Beck (1 August 1934 – 24 April 2000) was a New Zealand cricketer who played in eight Test matches between 1953 and 1956. He played Plunket Shield cricket for Wellington from 1954–55 to 1961–62. International career An attacking left-handed batsman and fine fieldsman, John Beck was selected for the tour to South Africa in 1953–54 at the age of 19 and before he had played a first-class match: chosen "on the basis of his schoolboy form and his raw promise".''Wisden'' 2001, pp. 1575–76. In the Third Test at Cape Town he was run out for 99 after he and John Reid had put on 174 for the fifth wicket, including 165 in the two hours between lunch and tea on the second day. In New Zealand's first ever Test victory, against the West Indies at Auckland in 1955–56, Beck made 38 in the first innings, adding 104 for the fifth wicket with Reid, the highest partnership of the low-scoring match. That was his last Test match. Domestic career Beck played for Welli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |