William Webb (1872 – 29 January 1913) 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 seven
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 ...
between 1897 and 1901.
A right-arm bowler, Webb's best bowling figures came on Otago's northern tour in 1899–1900, when he took 5 for 42 in the second innings in the victory over
Hawke's Bay
Hawke's Bay ( mi, Te Matau-a-Māui) is a local government region on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. The region's name derives from Hawke Bay, which was named by Captain James Cook in honour of Admiral Edward Hawke. The region is ...
. Ill-health led him to retire from cricket in his thirties, when he took up
umpiring, but he died at the age of 40. His Dunedin cricket club, Opoho, forfeited its next match so its players could attend his funeral.
See also
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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 ...
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1872 births
1913 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Otago cricketers
People from Mosgiel
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