Henry Victor Angel Holderness (24 May 1889 – 17 July 1974) 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 for
Otago
Otago (, ; mi, Ōtākou ) is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island administered by the Otago Regional Council. It has an area of approximately , making it the country's second largest local government reg ...
. He was born and died in
Dunedin.
Holderness made a single
first-class appearance, during the 1918–19 season, against
Southland. Opening the bowling for Otago, he took 5 for 10 and 5 for 29 as he and
Arthur Alloo bowled unchanged through the match to dismiss Southland for 41 and 55. Otago won the match by a comfortable margin despite scoring only 94 and 88.
He was wounded in 1915 while serving as a
gunner with the New Zealand forces in
World War I.
['' New Zealand Herald'', 14 August 1915, p. 9.]
See also
*
List of Otago representative cricketers
References
External links
Henry Holdernessat CricketArchive
1889 births
1974 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Otago cricketers
New Zealand military personnel of World War I
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