Desmond Joseph Ferrow (29 October 1933 – 5 December 2020) 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 in four
first-class matches for
Northern Districts from 1956 to 1958.
Ferrow was an off-spin bowler who took his best first-class figures of 4 for 50 in Northern Districts' inaugural first-class match in the 1956-57
Plunket Shield. He played for many years for
Bay of Plenty, and holds their record for the best match figures of 13 for 51 (7 for 35 and 6 for 16) against King Country in 1960. In 1956 he was the first Bay of Plenty bowler to take
10 wickets in a match
In cricket, a ten-wicket haul occurs when a bowler takes ten wickets in either a single innings or across both innings of a two-innings match. The phrase ten wickets in a match is also used.
Taking ten wickets in a match at Lord's earns the bow ...
.
See also
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List of Northern Districts representative cricketers
This is a list of all cricketers who have played first-class, List A or Twenty20 cricket for the Northern Districts cricket team in New Zealand. Seasons given are first and last seasons; the player did not necessarily play in all the interveni ...
References
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1933 births
2020 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Northern Districts cricketers
Cricketers from Wollongong
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