Arthur Hadfield Fisher (11 February 1871 – 23 March 1961) was a New Zealand cricketer, golfer and businessman.
Life and career
Fisher was born at
Nelson
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, New Zealand, and was educated at
Otago Boys' High School
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in
Dunedin
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and
Waitaki Boys' High School
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in
Oamaru
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.
[McCarron, A. (2010]
''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010''
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. An accurate left-arm medium-pace swing bowler, he played for
Otago
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from 1890–91 to 1909-10, taking 197 wickets at an average of 16.38. He was also a useful lower-order batsman and a brilliant fielder.
Against a touring
Queensland cricket team
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in 1896–97 Fisher took 9 for 50 in the first innings, which is still an Otago record for innings bowling figures.
[Seconi A (2011]
"Greatest moments in Otago sport – Number 92"
''Otago Daily Times
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'', 16 September 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2022. Later that season he took 7 for 11 to dismiss Canterbury
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...
for 46, bowling
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three batsmen in the space of four balls in his second over
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Fisher represented New Zealand, in the days before New Zealand had Test
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status, in matches against Australian and English teams. The Australians were so impressed with his bowling on their tour of New Zealand in 1896 that they invited him to try out for the Australian Test team in 1897–98. He went to Melbourne
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and practised there, but was unable to reproduce his New Zealand form on the harder Australian pitches, and was not selected in the Australian team. Against the touring MCC side in Wellington in 1906–07, he took 4 for 25 and 5 for 61 in a 56-run victory for New Zealand.
Fisher won the New Zealand Amateur
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golf championship in 1904, beating George MacEwan 3&2 in the final. He had been Otago champion the previous year.[
Fisher worked for the Standard Fire and Marine Insurance Company for 60 years. In 1912 he became the company's general manager, and he remained in that position until he retired in 1947.]
Personal life
On 15 December 1896, at St Peter's Anglican Church in the Dunedin suburb of Caversham, Fisher married Janet Graeme Rollo Brodrick.
References
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1871 births
1961 deaths
New Zealand businesspeople
Cricketers from Nelson, New Zealand
New Zealand cricketers
Pre-1930 New Zealand representative cricketers
Otago cricketers
New Zealand male golfers
Amateur golfers
South Island cricketers
Businesspeople in insurance