Albertus Eckhoff (24 June 1875 – 1 April 1949) 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 15
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 1899–00 and 1914–15 seasons.
Eckhoff was born at
Dunedin in 1875. He worked as a blacksmith. Principally a bowler, he made his representative debut for Otago against
Wellington at the
Basin Reserve as a late replacement for
John Harkness, although he did not take a wicket in the match and was generally considered not to be the best alternative available for Otago.
[ Despite his performance, he retained his place for Otago's last representative match of the season, again due to other players being unavailable.][Cricket, '' Otago Witness'', issue 2392, 4 January 1900, p. 41.]
Available online
at Papers Past. Retrieved 28 May 2023.)
In his 15 first-class matches Eckhoff took 21 wickets, with best figures of 6/21―figures from his second representative match, a performance which '' The Press'' called "sensational", commenting that although "he sent down a lot of loose stuff, he also bowled some really good balls"; the Dunedin '' Evening Star's'' reporter was of the opinion that "he will do great things for Otago yet". As a batsman he scored a total of 112 runs wit a highest score of 19.[Albertus Eckhoff]
CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 May 2023. He died suddenly at Wellington in 1949 aged 73.[Deaths, '']Otago Daily Times
The ''Otago Daily Times'' (ODT) is a newspaper published by Allied Press Ltd in Dunedin, New Zealand. The ''ODT'' is one of the country's four main daily newspapers, serving the southern South Island with a circulation of around 26,000 and a c ...
'', issue 27047, 4 April 1949, p. 1.
Available online
at Papers Past. Retrieved 28 May 2023.)
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1875 births
1949 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Otago cricketers
Cricketers from Dunedin
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