Alan William Gilbertson (6 December 1927 – 7 May 2009) was a New Zealand

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er. He played eight first-class matches for

Otago Otago (, ; mi, Ōtākou ) is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island administered by the Otago Regional Council. It has an area of approximately , making it the country's second largest local government reg ...

between the 1951–52 and 1953–54 seasons.Alan Gilbertson
CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 February 2024. Gilbertson was born at

Invercargill Invercargill ( , mi, Waihōpai is the southernmost and westernmost city in New Zealand, and one of the southernmost cities in the world. It is the commercial centre of the Southland region. The city lies in the heart of the wide expanse of t ...

in Southland in 1927, the son of James Gilbertson and nephew of John Gilbertson, both of whom had played first-class cricket for Southland. Like his father, he worked as a builder. He set a seventh wicket record partnership of 182 runs for Otago, batting with Bert Sutcliffe in 1952–53.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 56. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.

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