Raymond Brackley Strange (27 October 1878 – 17 September 1962) was a New Zealand
cricket
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er. He played in nine
first-class matches for
Canterbury
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from 1901 to 1904.
He later lived in Australia.
Life and career
Born in
Christchurch
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, Strange took a wicket with his first ball in first-class cricket: in his second match, he ended
Hawke's Bay's first innings by
bowling
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the last batsman,
Tom Dent
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, with his only delivery. Not until the 1988–89 season did another New Zealander (
Stephen Hotter) take a wicket with his first ball in first-class cricket.
Strange was only an occasional bowler. He played as a batsman, and made his highest score of 52 against
Wellington
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in January 1904. He was selected to represent
South Island
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against
North Island
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later that month, when he failed as an opening batsman but took four wickets in South Island's narrow victory. It was his last first-class match.
Strange moved to
Sydney
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in December 1904 and lived in
Parramatta, where he married Meta Mance in January 1910. In 1932 he set up a business with Meta as a manufacturer's representative in
Hobart
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, but she died there in June 1934. They had four daughters. He spent some years working as a book-keeper on a
sheep station in the
Riverina region of
New South Wales
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before returning to Sydney, where he died in September 1962, aged 83.
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See also
* List of Canterbury representative cricketers
References
External links
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1878 births
1962 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Canterbury cricketers
Cricketers from Christchurch
South Island cricketers
Immigrants to Australia
New Zealand emigrants