List of Auckland representative cricketers

This is a list of cricketers who have played first–class, list A or Twenty20 cricket for the Auckland cricket team in New Zealand.[1] Seasons given are the first and last seasons the player appeared for the side in a senior match; the player did not necessarily play in all the intervening seasons.

As of 3 November 2024

Notes

edit
  1. ^ Aitken, who is thought to have been born in 1959, played age-group and B team cricket for Auckland between 1979–80 and 1981–82 as well as against Northland in a non-first-class match. His three List A appearances for the provincial side all came during the 1980–81 season. He scored a total of 90 runs, including a highest score of 54, and took a single wicket. No other biographical details and known.[2][3]
  2. ^ All three of Brook's matches for Auckland came in early 1914 after he was chosen for the team after playing cricket in Whangārei. He made his provincial debut against Canterbury in January and after playing against Wellington later in the month he made his final appearance for Auckland the following month against the touring Australians. He scored a total of 117 runs and took one wicket. Other than a surname and initials no biographical details are known.[4][5]
  3. ^ A wicket-keeper, Hayward played two first-class matches for Auckland in 1910–11. He took two catches and scored a single run against Wellington on debut in December, before taking a single catch and not scoring in either of his innings against Canterbury at the end of January. Other than a surname and initial no biographical details are known.[6][7]
  4. ^ Jones played twice for Auckland during the 1911–12 season. He made his debut against Otago at Carisbrook in mid-February 1912 before playing his second match later in the month against Wellington at the Basin Reserve. Primarily a bowler, he took four first-class wickets, including 3/30 on debut, and scored a total of 20 runs in three innings. Other than a surname and initials no biographical details are known.[8][9]
  5. ^ Nicholson played a single match for Auckland against a touring New South Wales side in January 1894. He scored eight not out in his first innings and four in his second. Other than a surname and initials no biographical information is known.[10][11]
  6. ^ Sands was born in Yorkshire in England[12] and emigrated to Australia where he met cricketer Sammy Jones in Sydney. Jones moved to New Zealand in 1904 and coached the Grafton club and at Auckland Grammar School; in the following season he was employed as a coach by the Auckland Cricket Association.[13] The Association employed Sands to assist Jones as their second coach for the 1905–06 season[14] and he played for the North Shore cricket club.[15] He made his only first-class appearance for Auckland in a January 1906 match against Hawke's Bay, taking four wickets and recording a duck in the only innings in which he batted.[16][17] Little else is known about his life, with some doubt as to his first initial and sources disagreeing over his place of birth.[18]
  7. ^ Silva played three matches for Auckland in 2001–02. He had previously played three matches for Central Districts during the previous season and, prior to that, both first-class and List A cricket in his native Sri Lanka. He was born at Colombo in 1970 and played primarily as a medium-paced bowler.[19]
  8. ^ Woods played two first-class matches for Auckland, both in January 1914. Playing primarily as a bowler, he took a total of eight wickets, three on debut against Canterbury and five against Wellington in his second match. Other than a surname and initials no biographical details are known.[20][21]
  9. ^ Wright played three times for Auckland, once against Hawke's Bay in March 1913 and twice the following January. A batsman, he made scores of 35 and 88 on debut, but scored only 19 runs in four innings the following season. Other than a surname and initial no biographical details are known.[22][23]

References

edit
  1. ^ Auckland players, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
  2. ^ RA Aitken, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-08-20. (subscription required)
  3. ^ McCarron, p. 145.
  4. ^ JF Brook, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-08-20. (subscription required)
  5. ^ McCarron, p. 25.
  6. ^ G Hayward, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-08-19. (subscription required)
  7. ^ McCarron, p. 65.
  8. ^ AO Jones, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-08-19. (subscription required)
  9. ^ McCarron, p. 74.
  10. ^ JA Nicholson, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-08-19. (subscription required)
  11. ^ McCarron, p. 99.
  12. ^ Cricket, New Zealand Herald, vol. XLII, issue 13015, 4 November 1905, p. 7. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2016-06-22.)
  13. ^ Cricket, The New Zealand Herald, vol. XLIII, issue 13277, 8 September 1906, p. 8. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2016-06-22.)
  14. ^ Cricket, The Evening Post, vol. LXX, issue 127, 25 November 1905, p. 14. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2016-06-22.)
  15. ^ Cricket, The New Zealand Herald, vol. XLII, issue 13045, 9 December 1905, p. 7. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 2016-06-22.)
  16. ^ R Sands, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-08-20. (subscription required)
  17. ^ R Sands. CricInfo. Retrieved 2024-08-20.
  18. ^ McCarron, p. 117.
  19. ^ Sanjeewa Silva, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-08-25. (subscription required)
  20. ^ ER Woods, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-08-20. (subscription required)
  21. ^ McCarron, p. 142.
  22. ^ H Wright, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-08-20. (subscription required)
  23. ^ McCarron, p. 143.

Bibliography

edit
  • McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2