Lawrence Raymond James Eckhoff (born 19 May 1952 in
Dunedin
Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th ...
) is a former 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.
A right-arm fast-medium bowler, Eckhoff played one
first-class and one
List A cricket
List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...
match 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 ...
in the
1975–76 season. In his List A match against
Canterbury
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...
, he took the only two Canterbury wickets to fall, those of
Barry Hadlee
Barry George Hadlee (born 14 December 1941) is a former cricketer from New Zealand. He was a right-handed opening batsman. In a first-class career lasting from 1961–62 to 1980–81, he represented Canterbury 84 times.
Family
Hadlee was born ...
and
Peter Coman
Peter George Coman (born 13 April 1943) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played three One Day Internationals in the 1970s. He was the first player to play One Day Internationals and never appear in a Test match.
An opening batsman, Coman w ...
.
In ten years of A grade cricket in Dunedin he took 427 wickets at an average of 17.2. He moved to Australia after accepting an offer from the
Sturt Cricket Club
The Sturt Cricket Club (formerly the Unley Cricket Club) is a semi-professional cricket club in Adelaide, South Australia. It competes in the South Australian Grade Cricket League, which is administered by the South Australian Cricket Association ...
in Adelaide. He was a member of the Sturt team that won the premiership in 1979. He left Sturt in 1981 to take up a playing coach position at
Port Adelaide Cricket Club
Port Adelaide Cricket Club is a cricket club in Adelaide, South Australia. Its home oval is the Port Reserve, Port Adelaide.
The club was founded in 1893. Port Adelaide has played in the South Australian Grade Cricket League since 1897.
Histor ...
. Eckhoff returned to Sturt in 1985.
See also
*
List of Otago representative cricketers
This is a list of cricketers who have played first-class, List A or Twenty20 cricket for the Otago cricket team. Otago played its first representative match in January 1864 against Southland, before playing the first match in New Zealand which i ...
References
1952 births
Living people
New Zealand cricketers
Otago cricketers
Cricketers from Dunedin
Port Adelaide cricketers
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