Alf Hadden

Alf Hadden
	Alf Hadden in 1910
Personal information
Full name	Alfred Ernest Hadden
Born	1877; Sydney, Australia
Died	25 December 1936 (age 58) [1] ; Auckland, New Zealand
Batting	Right-handed
Domestic team information
1905-06 to 1910-11	Auckland
Career statistics
Matches	20
Runs scored	986
Batting average	29.87
100s/50s	0/10
Top score	84
Balls bowled	1245
Wickets	25
Bowling average	25.20
5 wickets in innings	1
10 wickets in match	0
Best bowling	5/65
Catches/stumpings	6/0
	Source: Cricket Archive, 14 October 2014

Last updated March 08, 2019

Alfred Ernest Hadden (often spelt Haddon) (1877 – 23 December 1936) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Auckland from 1906 to 1911, and played for New Zealand in the days before New Zealand played Test cricket.

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Cricket career

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He made his first-class debut for Auckland against Otago in 1905-06, scoring 60 (second-top score) and 64 (top score) in a losing side.^[3] He finished the season with 281 runs at an average of 40.14.^[4]

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In 1906-07 he played in both matches New Zealand played against the touring MCC. New Zealand lost the first. In the second match, on a difficult pitch against hostile fast bowling by Johnny Douglas and Percy May, Hadden scored 71 in the second innings after New Zealand had been 33 for 3. The Auckland Star said it was "an exhibition of batting in which splendid defence, punctuated with free punishing powers, predominated ... [he] made several clinking carpet drives, which found the boundary".^[5] Percy May said Hadden's innings was the "finest recorded against us during the whole tour. His driving, cutting and hooking were equally skilful".^[6] New Zealand won by 56 runs.^[7]

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Personal life

A prison sentence ended his cricket career. While working as a tally clerk at the Auckland wharves, in July 1911 he was arrested after a series of cargo thefts at the wharves.^[9] At the trial it was argued in his defence that Hadden was a man of good character whose "only failing was drink", and that his accomplices had taken advantage of this weakness.^[10] In September he was sentenced to two years' jail. One of his accomplices received a nine-month sentence, and the other eight years.^[11]

He served overseas as a private in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War I.^[12] He was gassed near Messines in 1917 and spent some months recovering in England before returning to New Zealand.^[13]

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References

1 2 "Old cricketer dies". New Zealand Herald: 16. 30 December 1936. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
↑ "Personal". Auckland Star: 3. 17 September 1904. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
↑ Otago v Auckland 1905-06
↑ 1905-6 batting averages
↑ Auckland Star , 11 March 1907, p. 5.
↑ Don Neely & Richard Payne, Men in White: The History of New Zealand International Cricket, 1894–1985, Moa, Auckland, 1986, p. 49.
↑ New Zealand v MCC, Wellington 1906-07
↑ Auckland v Hawke's Bay 1910-11
↑ Dominion , 15 July 1911, p. 6
↑ Auckland Star , 29 August 1911, p. 5.
↑ The Press , 4 September 1911, p. 4.
↑ Cenotaph record, Alfred Ernest Hadden Retrieved 17 October 2014.
↑ "The Sports' Roll of Honor". Referee: 15. 19 December 1917. Retrieved 18 August 2016.

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[NZHObit-1] 1 2 "Old cricketer dies". New Zealand Herald: 16. 30 December 1936. Retrieved 29 March 2018.

[2] "Personal". Auckland Star: 3. 17 September 1904. Retrieved 18 August 2016.

[3] Otago v Auckland 1905-06

[4] 1905-6 batting averages

[5] Auckland Star , 11 March 1907, p. 5.

[6] Don Neely & Richard Payne, Men in White: The History of New Zealand International Cricket, 1894–1985, Moa, Auckland, 1986, p. 49.

[7] New Zealand v MCC, Wellington 1906-07

[8] Auckland v Hawke's Bay 1910-11

[9] Dominion , 15 July 1911, p. 6

[10] Auckland Star , 29 August 1911, p. 5.

[11] The Press , 4 September 1911, p. 4.

[12] Cenotaph record, Alfred Ernest Hadden Retrieved 17 October 2014.

[13] "The Sports' Roll of Honor". Referee: 15. 19 December 1917. Retrieved 18 August 2016.