Edwin Moon Cummings (29 January 1885 – 22 November 1951) was a New Zealand

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er. He played two first-class matches for

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, one in each of the 1909–10 and 1911–12 seasons. Cummings was born at

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in 1885. He worked as a timber merchant. His older brother

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played cricket for Otago and

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.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 40. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Cummings made his senior debut for the Otago side in a match against the touring Australians at Carisbrook in March 1910. Opening the bowling, he took the first two Australian wickets to fall in the match. His only other first-class match for the side came later in the same year in a Christmas fixture against

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.Edwin Cummings
CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 May 2023. Cummings died at

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in 1951. He was aged 66.

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