James Gray (15 March 1885 – 17 November 1975) was a New Zealand
cricket
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er. He played in ten
first-class matches for
Canterbury
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from 1917 to 1920.
In December 1917, Gray, captaining Sydenham in the senior Christchurch competition against Christ's College, scored 343
not out
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in 225 minutes before declaring the innings closed at 599 for 4. Sydenham won by an innings and 326 runs. Both Gray's score and Sydenham's are still record scores for the Christchurch competition.
Gray made his first-class debut later that month, captaining Canterbury to victory over
Otago
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, scoring 20 and 32 in a low-scoring match. A year later, in the first
Plunket Shield match after
World War I
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, he made 100 in 132 minutes, the only century in the match, when Canterbury lost by two wickets to
Wellington
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.
See also
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List of Canterbury representative cricketers
References
External links
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1885 births
1975 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Canterbury cricketers
Cricketers from Oamaru
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