Lancelot Gerald Hemus (13 November 1881 – 27 October 1933) was a New Zealand

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er. He played 46 first-class matches for

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between 1904 and 1922. An opening batsman, in 1907-08 Hemus scored the first century in the

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when Auckland beat

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to claim the Shield. By his last season, 1921–22, when Auckland again won the Shield, he was the highest scorer in the competition's history. When the cricket historian

Tom Reese Thomas Wilson Reese (29 September 1867 – 13 April 1949) was a New Zealand first-class cricketer who played for Canterbury from 1888 to 1918, and later wrote a two-volume history of New Zealand cricket. Life and career Reese was one of the fir ...

chose the best New Zealand team of all time in 1936, he named Hemus as one of the opening batsmen. He died of

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in 1933, leaving a widow, a son and three daughters.

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* 1881 births 1933 deaths New Zealand cricketers Pre-1930 New Zealand representative cricketers Auckland cricketers Cricketers from Auckland Deaths from pneumonia in New Zealand {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1880s-stub

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