Walter Reginald Hammond was an English first-class cricketer who played for Gloucestershire in a career that lasted from 1920 to 1951. Beginning as a professional,he later became an amateur and was appointed captain of England. Primarily a middle-order batsman,Wisden Cricketers' Almanack described him in his obituary as one of the four best batsmen in the history of cricket. He was considered to be the best English batsman of the 1930s by commentators and those with whom he played;they also said that he was one of the best slip fielders ever. Hammond was an effective fast-medium pace bowler and contemporaries believed that if he had been less reluctant to bowl,he could have achieved even more with the ball than he did.
Graeme Ashley Hick is a Zimbabwean-born former England cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England. He was born in Rhodesia,and as a young man played international cricket for Zimbabwe. He played English county cricket for Worcestershire for his entire English domestic career,a period of well over twenty years,and in 2008 surpassed Graham Gooch's record for the most matches in all forms of the game combined. He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1992 Cricket World Cup.
Bert Sutcliffe was a New Zealand Test cricketer. Sutcliffe was a successful left-hand batsman. His batting achievements on tour in England in 1949,which included four fifties and a century in the Tests,earned him the accolade of being one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year. He captained New Zealand in four Tests in the early 1950s,losing three of them and drawing the other. None of Sutcliffe's 42 Tests resulted in a New Zealand victory. In 1949 Sutcliffe was named the inaugural New Zealand Sportsman of the Year,and in 2000 was named as New Zealand champion sportsperson of the decade for the 1940s.
Lee Kenneth Germon is a sporting body administrator and former New Zealand cricketer,wicket-keeper and former captain. He played for the provinces of Canterbury and Otago and is the most successful Canterbury cricket captain of the modern era. He was made captain of the New Zealand Cricket team on his Test match debut. He holds the unofficial record for the most runs (70),from a single over in first-class cricket.
Henry Foley was a New Zealand Test cricketer who played first-class cricket for Wellington from 1927 to 1933. He played in New Zealand's first Test match.
Paul Erskine Whitelaw was a New Zealand cricketer who played for Auckland and New Zealand.
Kenneth John Wadsworth was a New Zealand cricketer who played 33 Tests and 13 One Day Internationals for New Zealand as a wicket-keeper. Wadsworth played domestically for Central Districts and Canterbury and for Nelson in the Hawke Cup.
Terrence Wayne Jarvis is a New Zealand businessman and former cricketer who played 13 Test matches for New Zealand between 1965 and 1973. With Glenn Turner,Jarvis holds the opening Test partnership record for New Zealand of 387,scored against the West Indies in Georgetown,Guyana,during the 1971–72 season.
Khalid "Billy" Ibadulla was a Pakistani-New Zealander cricketer,cricket coach and umpire who later worked as a cricket commentator for TVNZ. He represented Pakistan four times at Test match level between 1964 and 1967,and was the first Pakistani to play in the County Championship.
Leslie Watt was a New Zealand cricketer who played one Test match for the New Zealand national team,against England in March 1955. He was born at Waitati in Otago in 1924.
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.
Alexander McKenzie Moir was a New Zealand cricketer. He played 17 Test matches for New Zealand in the 1950s as a leg-spinner and lower-order batsman.
Nicholas Richard Denis Compton is a South African-born English former Test and first-class cricketer who most recently played for Middlesex County Cricket Club. The grandson of Denis Compton,he represented England in 16 Test matches.
Donald Derek Beard was a New Zealand cricketer who played in four Test matches from 1952 to 1956. He was a schoolteacher and school principal.
Brian Frederick Hastings was a New Zealand cricketer. A middle-order batsman,he played 31 Test matches between 1969 and 1976,scoring four centuries. He played first-class cricket for Wellington,Central Districts and Canterbury between 1958 and 1977.
Michael John Froud Shrimpton was a New Zealand cricketer and coach.
Hamish Duncan Rutherford is a New Zealand former professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Otago and represented New Zealand in international cricket. A left-handed batsman and occasional left-arm spin bowler,Rutherford is the son of former New Zealand Test captain Ken Rutherford and nephew of Ian Rutherford. He was born at Dunedin in 1989 and educated at Otago Boys' High School in the city.
A batsman has scored 1,000 first-class runs before the end of May in an English cricket season on only eight occasions. In five of these occasions,the batsman reached 1,000 runs with innings played in April and May,but three scored 1,000 runs in the month of May alone. These were:W.G. Grace in 1895,Wally Hammond in 1927,and most recently Charlie Hallows in 1928.
Keith Oliver Campbell is a former New Zealand cricketer. A middle-order batsman,medium-pace bowler and occasional wicket-keeper,he played for Otago from 1963–64 to 1978–79. He toured the West Indies in 1971–72 and Australia in 1973–74 with the New Zealand national cricket team,but did not play Test cricket.
Devon Philip Conway is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for the New Zealand cricket team in all formats. In March 2020,the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that Conway,who was born in South Africa,would be eligible to play for New Zealand from 28 August 2020. In May 2020,New Zealand Cricket awarded him a central contract,ahead of the 2020–21 season.
