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New Zealand Cricket Team In Australia In 1925–26
The New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from early December 1925 to mid-January 1926, playing four first-class matches against state teams and five other matches. The team The selectors were hampered by the unavailability of many players. Four leading players ( David Collins, Herb McGirr, James Shepherd and Nessie Snedden) had announced that they were unavailable, four ( Stewie Dempster, George Dickinson, Syd Hiddleston and Richard Rowntree) withdrew from the subsequently selected team, and two ( John Banks and Matt Henderson) of their replacements also withdrew. Don Neely & Richard Payne, ''Men in White: The History of New Zealand International Cricket, 1894–1985'', Moa, Auckland, 1986, p. 69. Fourteen players toured: * Billy Patrick (captain) * Cyril Allcott * Arthur Alloo * Roger Blunt * Cyril Crawford * Bill Cunningham * Ces Dacre * Hector Gillespie * Raymond Hope * Ken James * Tom Lowry * Dan McBeath * Charlie Oliver * Rupert Worker The team w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Cricket Team
The New Zealand national cricket team represents New Zealand in men's international cricket. Nicknamed the Black Caps (), they played their first Test in 1930 against England in Christchurch, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. From 1930 New Zealand had to wait until 1956, more than 26 years, for its first Test victory, against the West Indies at Eden Park in Auckland. They played their first ODI in the 1972–73 season against Pakistan in Christchurch. New Zealand are the inaugural champions of ICC World Test Championship which they won in 2021 and they have also won ICC Champions Trophy in 2000. They have played in the ICC Cricket World Cup final twice in 2015 and 2019 but are yet to win one, although they are recognized as one of the best teams of the tournament. They have also played the final of the ICC T20 World Cup in 2021 and failed to win it too. Tom Latham is the current captain of the team in Test cricket and Mitchell Santner is the current c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Crawford
Cyril Gore Crawford (13 March 1902 – 17 June 1988) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Canterbury from 1921 to 1932 and played for New Zealand in the days before New Zealand played Test cricket. Career Crawford was born in Christchurch and educated at Christchurch Boys' High School, where he excelled at cricket, coached by Arthur Thomas. A middle-order batsman, Crawford struggled to establish a place in the Canterbury side until he scored 61 against the touring New South Wales team in 1923–24, when he "played the soundest cricket of any one on the side" and "more than justified his inclusion". The next season, against the Victorians, he made 70 batting at number three, when he "gave a sound exhibition of batting" and "made quite a lot of fine scoring shots", particularly the cut. He toured Australia with the New Zealand team in 1925–26, but failed in his two matches against state teams, although he scored 121 in a two-day match against a Northe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wagga Wagga
Wagga Wagga (; informally called Wagga) is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, with an urban population of more than 57,003 as of 2021, it is an important agricultural, military, and transport hub of Australia. The ninth largest inland city in Australia, Wagga Wagga is located midway between the two largest cities in Australia—Sydney and Melbourne—and is the major regional centre for the Riverina and South Western Slopes, South West Slopes regions. The central business district is focused around the commercial and recreational grid bounded by Best and Tarcutta Streets and the Murrumbidgee River and the Sturt Highway. The main shopping street of Wagga is Baylis Street which becomes Fitzmaurice Street at the northern end. Wagga is accessible from Sydney via the Sturt Highway, Sturt and Hume Highways, Adelaide via the Sturt Highway and Albury and Melbourne via the Olympic Highway and Hume Highway. Wagga i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goulburn, New South Wales
Goulburn ( ) is a regional city in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, approximately south-west of Sydney and north-east of Canberra. It was proclaimed as Australia's first inland city through letters patent by Queen Victoria in 1863. Goulburn had a population of as of the . Goulburn is the seat of Goulburn Mulwaree Council. Goulburn is a Goulburn railway station, railhead on the Main Southern railway line, New South Wales, Main Southern line, and regional health & government services centre, supporting the surrounding pastoral industry as well as being a stopover for travellers on the Hume Highway. It has a central historic park and many historic and listed buildings. It is also home to the monument the Big Merino, a sculpture that is the world's largest concrete sheep. History Goulburn was named by surveyor James Meehan (surveyor), James Meehan after Henry Goulburn, Under-Secretary for War and the Colonies, and the name was ratified by Governor Lachlan M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Cricket Team
The Queensland men's cricket team or the Queensland Bulls is the representative cricket side in Australia's domestic cricket tournaments for the Australian state of Queensland: *Sheffield Shield: four-day matches with first class cricket, first-class status, since the 1926/27 season *Australian domestic limited-overs cricket tournament, Marsh One-Day Cup: a Limited overs cricket, one-day (fifty over per side) tournament with List A cricket, List-A status, since its inception in 1969/70 *KFC Twenty20 Big Bash: a Twenty20, twenty overs per side tournament from 2005/06 to 2010/11. History 1824 to 1926/27 The first European settlement in Queensland was a penal colony established at Redcliffe, Queensland, Redcliffe in 1824, which moved to Brisbane the following year. Free settlers first arrived in 1842. The earliest evidence of cricket being played in Queensland is in 1857, two years prior to separation from New South Wales and History of Queensland#Colony of Queensland, statehood. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Cricket Council
New Zealand Cricket, formerly the New Zealand Cricket Council, is the governing body for professional cricket in New Zealand. Cricket is the most popular and highest profile summer sport in New Zealand. New Zealand Cricket operates the New Zealand cricket team, organising Test tours and One-Day Internationals with other nations. It also organises domestic cricket in New Zealand, including the Plunket Shield first-class competition, The Ford Trophy men's domestic one-day competition, the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield women's domestic one-day competition, as well as the Men's Super Smash and Women's Super Smash domestic Twenty20 competitions. Scott Weenink is the Chief Executive Officer of New Zealand Cricket. Tom Latham is the current Blackcaps Test captain, succeeding Tim Southee who still represents the team. Sophie Devine is the current White Ferns captain. History On 27 December 1894, 12 delegates from around New Zealand met in Christchurch to form the New Zealand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Worker
Rupert Vivian de Renzy Worker (15 April 1896 – 23 April 1989) played first-class cricket in New Zealand between 1914 and 1929. He represented New Zealand in the years before New Zealand played Test cricket. He worked as a schoolteacher. Early career Worker was born at Auckland in 1896 and educated at Auckland Grammar School.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 142. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Available onlineat the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) He made his first-class debut when he played one match for Auckland in the 1914–15 season. After graduating from Auckland University College he became a schoolmaster. While teaching at Christchurch Boys' High School he appeared for Canterbury, playing his first game as an opening batsman in the 1919–20 season. He was the outstanding batsman in Christchurch club cricket in 1919–20, scoring 609 runs at an average of 76.12 f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Oliver (rugby Union)
Charles Joshua Oliver (1 November 1905 – 25 September 1977) was a New Zealand rugby union international who also represented his country in first-class cricket. Cricket career Wanganui-born Oliver played as a specialist right-handed batsman and from 35 first-class matches scored 1301 runs at 23.23, with a best of 91. He represented Canterbury in domestic cricket, having debuted for them in the 1923/24 Plunket Shield. In the 1925/26 season he was a member of the New Zealand side which toured Australia and he made half-centuries against Victoria and South Australia. He also toured the British Isles in 1927 with the national side. He claimed the only wicket of his first-class career during this tour, that of Sussex bowler Reginald Hollingdale. New Zealand didn't gain Test status in cricket until 1930, by which time Oliver had decided to focus on his rugby, thus missing out on a chance to become a Test 'double international'. He continued to play senior club cricket in Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan McBeath
Daniel Jason McBeath (8 April 1897 – 13 April 1963) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket between the 1917–18 and 1926–27 seasons. He was born at Malvern in the Canterbury Region in 1897. Cricket career Otago and Canterbury, 1917–18 and 1918–19 After service overseas with the Canterbury Infantry Battalion during World War I, Dan McBeath made his first-class debut on Christmas Day 1917 for Otago against Canterbury, opening the bowling and taking 6 for 52 and 3 for 50. Transferring to Canterbury in 1918–19, he was the leading wicket-taker in the Plunket Shield, taking 25 wickets at an average of 17.68. In the match against Auckland he took 15 wickets: 9 for 56 (eight of them were bowled; he bowled unchanged through the innings, and would have taken the tenth wicket but for a dropped catch) and 6 for 112. Canterbury won and retained the Plunket Shield. It was the first time anyone had taken nine wickets in an innings or 15 wickets in a match in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Lowry
Thomas Coleman Lowry (17 February 1898 – 20 July 1976) was a New Zealand international cricketer. He was New Zealand's first Test captain, and led the team in their first seven Test matches between January 1930 and August 1931. He played first-class cricket from 1918 to 1937. He was a farmer and racehorse breeder in Hawke's Bay, who served as president of the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders Association from 1951 to 1965. Lowry family Lowry's father, Thomas Henry Lowry, a graduate of Cambridge University, inherited the Lowry property, Okawa, of 20,000 acres, in the Hawke's Bay region of the North Island. He married Helen ("Marsie") Watt, daughter of James Watt, "one of the richest men in New Zealand", in 1897. He was a keen cricketer, who played one first-class match for Hawke's Bay and constructed a cricket ground, "The Grove", on his property, which is still in use. He helped the Hawke's Bay Cricket Association bring out leading English professionals, including Albert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken James (cricketer)
Kenneth Cecil James (12 March 1904 – 21 August 1976), was a New Zealand Test cricketer who played for Wellington and Northamptonshire. He also served in New Zealand's Royal Air Force during second World War. Early career A wicket-keeper and a useful batsman, James first played for Wellington in 1923 and toured England with the first New Zealand touring party in 1927 ostensibly as second string to Tom Lowry. But he quickly made the wicket-keeping position his own, with 85 dismissals on the tour, including eight at Derby. His understanding of the spin of Bill Merritt, the touring team's most successful bowler, was especially noted.''Wisden'' 1977, p. 1044. No Test matches were played on the 1927 tour. James was first-choice wicket-keeper for New Zealand's first Test matches in 1929–30 against England, and again on the tour of England in 1931, and in the home series against South Africa in 1931–32 and against England the following season. In 11 Tests he made 16 dismissals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Hope
Raymond William "Punker" Hope (19 January 1904 – 24 June 1978) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1925 to 1934 and played for New Zealand in the days before the country played Test cricket. A tall fast bowler, Ray Hope was selected in the New Zealand team to tour Australia in 1925–26 before he had played a first-class match. Several of the originally selected players had had to withdraw, and Hope was the final replacement chosen. His senior cricket had been played for Manawatu. In Manawatu's match against the touring Victorians in 1924–25 he and Norman Gallichan had dismissed the Victorians for 191 to give Manawatu a 14-run first-innings lead. In November 1925, a few days before the team to Australia was finalised, he took 5 for 3 in a club match in Palmerston North. Hope played in two of the four matches against Australian state teams on the tour, taking three wickets at an average of 84.00. His next first-class matches were for Wellington, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
