Hutt Valley cricket team

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Hutt Valley cricket team
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OwnerHutt Valley Cricket Association
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Founded1928
Dissolved1999
Home ground Hutt Recreation Ground, Lower Hutt
History
Hawke Cup  wins4

The Hutt Valley cricket team represented the Hutt Valley in the Wellington region of New Zealand between 1928 and 1999. It competed in the Hawke Cup, which it won four times. Cricket in the area is now part of Cricket Wellington.

History

The first Hutt Valley Cricket Association was formed early in 1899 by delegates from the Petone, Waiwetu, Western Hutt and Johnsonville clubs. They agreed that matches should be arranged against Wellington and Wairarapa. [1] In the first match, held in Greytown later that season, Wairarapa beat Hutt Valley by 72 runs. [2] In the first season, 1899–1900, Petone United were premiers, while Waiwetu, Koro Koro, Western Hutt, St Augustine's and Upper Hutt also competed. [3]

The association lapsed after a few seasons and was not revived until 1928. [4] [5] It was affiliated with the New Zealand Cricket Council in 1947, thus becoming eligible to compete in the Hawke Cup. [6]

Players from Hutt Valley were always eligible to play for Wellington in the Plunket Shield. In their first Hawke Cup match, an elimination match in December 1947, Hutt Valley defeated Wairarapa, the Wellington representative Jimmy Kemp scoring 209 not out and Cedric Muir taking 12 wickets. [7] This success qualified Hutt Valley to play in the challenge matches in 1948–49. In their first challenge match, against Wanganui in December 1948, their batting, led by Kemp and John Reid, another Wellington player, who shortly afterwards made his Test cricket debut, took them to victory. [8] Hutt Valley then resisted several challenges until Hawke's Bay defeated them in April 1950. [9]

Hutt Valley next won the Hawke Cup in 1955–56, when their captain, Ian Upston, took 14 wickets in the match against Wanganui. [10] Their third victory came against Nelson in 1967–68, when George McConnell took 12 wickets and made 60 in the first innings, the only fifty in the match. [11] They won their fourth and last victory in a high-scoring match against Nelson in 1995–96, when the captain, Selwyn Blackmore, scored 146 opening the batting. [12]

Many Hutt Valley players represented Wellington in the Plunket Shield. Aside from John Reid, who captained the Test team from 1956 to 1965, a number of players also represented New Zealand in Test cricket during their careers with Hutt Valley. They included Bob Blair, Bruce Morrison, Artie Dick and Ewen Chatfield. [13]

The Hutt Valley Cricket Association and the Wellington Cricket Association amalgamated in 1999, thus ending Hutt Valley's independent existence and its participation in the Hawke Cup. [14] [15] Several teams from Hutt Valley now compete in the senior Wellington competitions. [16]

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References

  1. ↑ "Hutt Valley Cricket Association". Evening Post: 5. 7 February 1899.
  2. ↑ "Wairarapa v Hutt Valley 1898-99". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  3. ↑ "Cricket". Evening Post: 6. 25 April 1900.
  4. ↑ "Hutt Valley Cricket Association". Hutt News: 2. 5 October 1932.
  5. ↑ "The history of umpiring in the Wellington region". UmpiresNZ. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  6. ↑ Arthur Carman (ed), The Shell Cricket Almanack of New Zealand 1967, Sporting Publications, Tawa, 1967, p. 93.
  7. ↑ Arthur H. Carman & Noel S. Macdonald (eds), The Cricket Almanack of New Zealand, Sporting Publications, Wellington, 1948, pp. 70–71.
  8. ↑ "Wanganui v Hutt Valley 1948-49". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  9. ↑ "Hawke's Bay v Hutt Valley 1949-50". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  10. ↑ "Wanganui v Hutt Valley 1955-56". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  11. ↑ "Nelson v Hutt Valley 1967-68". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  12. ↑ "Nelson v Hutt Valley 1995-96". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  13. ↑ "Hutt Valley Players". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  14. ↑ McConnell, Lynn (13 October 2000). "Hutt Valley breaks with long Hawke Cup tradition". Cricinfo. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  15. ↑ McConnell, Lynn (16 August 2000). "Wellington records improved financial result". Cricinfo. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  16. ↑ "Find a Club". Cricket Wellington. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
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