Norman Rowley Wilson (14 January 1931 – 28 March 2018) 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.
An all-rounder, Norm Wilson played five matches of
first-class cricket for
Northern Districts between 1958 and 1961, and
Hawke Cup cricket for
Northland between 1952 and 1970.
He captained Northland for seven years. He was a key person in the consolidation of the Northland Cricket Association, and served as committeeman, secretary, chairman, and finally, since 2002, the patron. He was the groundsman at
Cobham Oval
Cobham Oval is a cricket ground in Whangarei, New Zealand, next to the Okara Park rugby stadium. It stages daytime-only first-class and List A matches. It is the home ground and headquarters of the Northland cricket team and one of the home g ...
in
Whangārei from the 1970s to the 2000s.
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1931 births
2018 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Northern Districts cricketers
Cricketers from Auckland
New Zealand cricket administrators
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