Rugby Southland is the provincial rugby union who govern the Southland region of New Zealand. Their headquarters are at Rugby Park Stadium in Invercargill, which is also the home ground of the union's professional team, the Southland Stags who compete in the Mitre 10 Cup Championship Division and challenge for the Ranfurly Shield.
John Chaloner Alabaster was a New Zealand cricketer who played 21 Test matches for the country's national team between 1955 and 1972. A leg-spin bowler, he was the only New Zealander to play in each of the country's first four Test victories. In domestic cricket, he was often partnered at the crease for his provincial side Otago by his younger brother Gren, who bowled off-spin. A schoolteacher, he later served as Rector of Southland Boys' High School in Invercargill.
McLean Park is a sports ground in Napier, New Zealand. The two main sports played at the ground are cricket and rugby union. It is one of the largest cricket grounds in New Zealand.
Kenneth Frank McNeill Uttley was a New Zealand cricketer and pathologist.
Kelvin Robin Tremain was a New Zealand rugby union player and administrator. A flanker, he won 38 full caps for the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks, between 1959 and 1968, scoring nine tries. During the 1960s he had a status in New Zealand rugby comparable to that of his teammate, Colin Meads.
Edward "Hone" Tyne (1879-1959) was a New Zealand rugby footballer who was part of the professional 1907-1908 New Zealand rugby tour of Great Britain.
Robert Alexander Holloway is a New Zealand former cricketer. He played 15 first-class matches, including 14 for Otago in the Plunket Shield, during the 1960s as an opening batsman. A good club batsman who is considered to have not fulfilled his potential in representative cricket, Holloway also played for Southland in the Hawke Cup.
The Southland cricket team represents the Southland Region of New Zealand. They compete in the Hawke Cup.
Donald Cameron Hamilton was a New Zealand rugby football player who represented the New Zealand national rugby union team, the All Blacks in 1908. He played rugby league for his province and he was also an accomplished cricketer.
Lord Hawke selected a cricket team of ten amateurs and two professional players to tour Australia and New Zealand from November 1902 until March 1903. After an opening game in San Francisco, the tour began of eighteen matches - seven of them considered first-class - in New Zealand followed by three further first-class games in Australia. Hawke's team was the first to tour Australasia with New Zealand as the primary destination and, as was the norm at the time, was privately run and funded. The Australian leg of the tour was a "profit making venture", however the games in New Zealand were scheduled at the behest of the New Zealand Cricket Board in order to raise the profile of cricket in the country. Two of them were against a New Zealand cricket team, before its international Test status. The inclusion of such games on the tour were considered "a sign that cricket in New Zealand was starting to be taken more seriously, and a move towards official international status was possible."
Arthur George Bell was a New Zealand cricketer. He played twelve first-class matches for Otago between 1888 and 1894, and was noted as a fine fieldsman.
Albert Edward Geddes was a New Zealand cricketer. He played nine first-class matches for Otago between 1899 and 1904.
Robin Gerard Jefferson is a New Zealand former cricketer and lawn bowls player.
Albert Victor Ernest Manley Keast was a New Zealand sportsman and journalist. He played four first-class cricket matches for Otago between the 1917–18 and 1922–23 seasons as well as playing Hawke Cup cricket for Southland.
Michael Lamont is a New Zealand former cricketer. He played 33 first-class and 40 List A matches, almost all of them for Otago, between the 1990–91 and 1998–99 seasons.
John William Purdue was a New Zealand sportsman. He played two first-class matches for Otago during the 1938–39 season and played rugby union for Southland.
William Nelson Vorrath was a New Zealand sportsman. Vorrath played six first-class cricket matches for Otago between the 1927–28 and 1929–30 seasons and represented Otago at rugby league.
Richard Pahi Wixon is a New Zealand former cricketer. He played first-class and List A matches for Central Districts and Otago between the 1991–92 and 1994–95 seasons.
Malcolm "Harry" Moorhouse was an English-born cricketer who played first-class cricket in New Zealand for Canterbury and Wellington from 1884 to 1908.
Neria Fomai is a rugby union player, who currently plays as a centre or wing for Hawke's Bay in New Zealand's domestic National Provincial Championship competition and for Moana Pasifika in Super Rugby. He was born and raised in New Zealand, but has represented Manu Samoa – for which he is eligible due to his Samoan heritage – both in the fifteen-a-side form of the game and rugby sevens.
