Personal information | |
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Full name | Lawrence Raymond James Eckhoff |
Born | Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand | 19 May 1952
Batting | Right-handed |
Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium |
Domestic team information | |
Years | Team |
1975/76 | Otago |
Source:CricketArchive,27 February 2024 |
Lawrence Raymond James Eckhoff (born 19 May 1952) is a former New Zealand cricketer. He was born at Dunedin in Otago in 1952 and educated at Otago Boys' High School where he played cricket. [1] [2]
An "energetic" right-arm fast-medium bowler who was described by The Press as "an interesting recruit" ahead of his senior debut in November 1975, [3] [4] Eckhoff played one first-class and one List A cricket match for Otago during the 1975–76 season. On debut,in a List A match against Canterbury,he took the only two Canterbury wickets to fall,those of Barry Hadlee and Peter Coman, [5] his "explosive action" generating out-swing which caused the opposing batsmen difficulties,although he was "plagued by no balls,and sometimes erred in length and line". [6]
Writing in The Press after the match Dick Brittenden considered that "more,surely,will be heard of him", [6] but in the event Eckhoff only played in one more representative match for Otago. After taking a single wicket opening the bowling against Canterbury in mid-December in his first-class debut, [5] he was injured and unable to play in the following match against Wellington,his place taken by Philip Morris, [7] and Eckhoff did not regain his place in the side. He had previously played age-group and Second XI cricket for the team during the 1972–73 season. [5]
In ten years of A grade cricket in Dunedin,he took 427 wickets at a bowling average of 17.20 runs per wicket. He moved to Australia after accepting an offer from the Sturt Cricket Club in Adelaide and was a member of the Sturt team that won the premiership in 1979. He left Sturt in 1981 to take up a playing coach position at Port Adelaide Cricket Club but returned to Sturt in 1985.
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