William James Holden (20 July 1883 – 2 August 1949) 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. He played four
first-class matches 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 ...
during the 1917–18 and 1918–19 seasons.
[Personalities in Sport: No. XLIV: WJ Holden, '' Evening Star'', issue 21078, 15 April 1932, p. 14.]
Available online
at Papers Past. Retrieved 31 May 2023.)
Holden was born at
Dunedin in 1883 and worked as a salesman.
[McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 68. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ] He played club cricket in both Dunedin and Christchurch. One of his sons,
Allen Holden, also played first-class cricket for Otago,
[ and another, Arthur Holden, was a rugby union half-back who played for Southland and New Zealand.][Topical Tattle, '' Evening Star'', issue 22190, 19 November 1935, p. 4.]
Available online
at Papers Past. Retrieved 31 May 2023.)Tubby Holden
All Blacks. Retrievied 31 May 2023. Holden died at
Invercargill in 1949. He was aged 66.
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1883 births
1949 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Otago cricketers
Cricketers from Dunedin
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