Francis Leonard Hugh Mooney (26 May 1921 – 8 March 2004) 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 who played in 14
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* Test match (rugby league)
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...
as a
wicket-keeper
The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being watchful of the batsman and ready to take a catch, stump the batsman out and run out a batsman when occasion arises. Th ...
between 1949 and 1954.
He played 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 ...
from 1941–42 to 1954–55, and toured England in 1949 and South Africa in 1953–54.
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1921 births
2004 deaths
New Zealand Test cricketers
Wellington cricketers
North Island cricketers
Wicket-keepers
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