William Patrick Redgrave (23 January 1881 – 28 November 1931) was a

cricketer 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 ...

who played

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

for

Wellington Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by me ...

and Hawke's Bay in New Zealand from 1903 to 1909.

Life and career

Born in

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

, Redgrave moved to

from

in 1903, taking a position as a groundsman at Basin Reserve. He began representing Wellington in December 1903. He had his best season in 1905-06 when he finished at the top of the New Zealand first-class batting averages with 286 runs at an average of 57.20. In Wellington's match against Hawke's Bay he opened the batting on the first day and made 165, which set a Wellington first-class record that stood for several years. He was third out when the score was 245 for 3, after hitting four sixes and 22 fours. Largely thanks to his innings Wellington made 409 for 8 on the first day despite losing time to rain. He did not bowl in Hawke's Bay's first innings, but he opened the bowling in their second innings and took 5 for 37, bowling unchanged through the innings of 59 all out. Redgrave moved to

Hastings Hastings () is a large seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England, east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...

in 1906 and played a few matches for Hawke's Bay. He died in Sydney in 1931, leaving a widow, Annie, and two daughters.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Redgrave, Bill 1881 births 1931 deaths Cricketers from Sydney Wellington cricketers Hawke's Bay cricketers