Allen Shrewsbury Player (5 September 1893 – 17 November 1962) 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 27
first-class matches for
Auckland
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between 1919 and 1929.
Player was a right-arm medium-pace bowler who was able to move the ball appreciably through the air and off the pitch, and could bowl unchanged for long spells. He was considered one of New Zealand's best medium-paced bowlers of the 1920s.
His best figures were 6 for 38 in Auckland's victory over
Canterbury
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in the
Plunket Shield in December 1926. In 1925–26 he was the second-highest wicket-taker in the Plunket Shield with 18 wickets at an average of 23.66. He was also a useful lower-order batsman who could use his reach and hitting power effectively. Against Canterbury in 1925–26 he took 3 for 79 and 4 for 56 and made 58 (adding 112 for the eighth wicket with James Gerrard) and 10.
Player also represented Auckland at
hockey. For a time he was chairman of the executive of the Auckland Hockey Association.
[
Player was admitted to practise as a solicitor in Auckland in May 1921. He married Moyra Kathleen Maud Johnson in Auckland in February 1925.]
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1893 births
1962 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Auckland cricketers
Cricketers from Auckland