Arthur Edward Dick (born 10 October 1936) is a former

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er who played 17 Test matches for

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as a

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between 1961 and 1965.

Cricket career

Dick made his first-class debut for Otago on Christmas Day 1956, playing as a middle-order batsman. He continued as a batsman with moderate results until he was selected for the tour of South Africa in 1961–62. John Ward, who was also selected, was an experienced wicket-keeper who had toured England in 1958, but his batting was weak, and so Dick, who had kept wicket only once in first-class cricket, for Otago against the MCC in 1958–59, was given a chance with the gloves. Dick kept wicket when the team stopped at Perth on the way to South Africa and played a match against

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, but conceded 32 byes in the match. However, his form improved when the team reached Africa and he kept wicket in all five Tests, taking 21 catches and 2 stumpings, although he conceded 52 byes in the series, against only 9 by his South African counterpart

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. His 50 not out in the second innings of the Third Test in Cape Town helped New Zealand to its first Test victory outside New Zealand. On the way back to New Zealand the team again played in Australia, and Dick made his only first-class century, 127 against New South Wales, after going in to bat with the New Zealanders 32 for 5. He moved to

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for the 1962–63 season, and kept his place in the Test side for most of the next few series. On the tour of England in 1965 he played in the first two Tests, then against Northamptonshire hit a "magnificent 96 in eighty-seven minutes which contained two 6's and sixteen 4's", only to be replaced by Ward for the Third Test a few days later. Dick never played another Test. In the next four years Ward,

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, Roy Harford and Barry Milburn all had a few Tests as New Zealand's keeper before

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established himself in the position in 1969. Dick played the 1965–66 season for Wellington, then played no first-class cricket until he returned for four matches in 1968–69. Beginning with the 1973–74 season the Arthur Dick Cup has been awarded annually to the leading run-scorer in Wellington club cricket.

References

External links

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"Last Over With Erin: Artie Dick"
interview from New Zealand Cricket Museum via

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