List of Canterbury representative cricketers

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This is a list of all cricketers who have played first-class, list A or Twenty20 cricket for Canterbury men's cricket team. [1] Seasons given are the first and last seasons the player played for the side. Players did not necessarily play for Canterbury in all of the intervening seasons.

Contents

As of 2 April 2025

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B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

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M

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O

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Q

R

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D Reese's XI

As well as top-level matches played by Canterbury, a single first-class match was played by a team organised by Dan Reese in April 1914. The team, which is known as D Reese's Canterbury XI, played against Wellington at the Basin Reserve, losing heavily. All but one of the cricketers who played for Reese's XI also appeared for Canterbury. The exception is listed below:

Notes

  1. ↑ Bent played in a single match for Canterbury against Otago in February 1868. He is not known to have played any other cricket. Other than a surname and initial no biographical details are known. [2]
  2. ↑ Davis played in six matches for Canterbury at the start of World War II. No biographical details are known. [3]
  3. ↑ Denham played in a single match for Canterbury in the 1884–85 season. No biographical details are known. [4]
  4. ↑ Medlow played in a single match for Canterbury in the 1894/95 season. Apart from a birth year of 1852, no biographical details are known. [5]
  5. ↑ Pierce, a left-arm bowler, played in four matches for Canterbury. Other than a surname and initial no biographical details are known. [6]
  6. ↑ Strange played twice for the side in first-class matches and in one other match for Canterbury. Other than a surname and initial no biographical details are known. [7]
  7. ↑ Watson played 10 first-class matches for the side either side of the First World War. Other than a surname and initial no biographical details are known. [8]
  8. ↑ Barrett was born at Hokitika in 1875 and educated at Christ's College in Christchurch. In the 1914 match he made scores of four not out and one, and is known to have also played matches for the St Albans club in Christchurch. Professionally he worked as a solicitor, was a racehorse owner, and served as the secretary of the New Zealand Cricket Council, also acting as chairman for a period. He died at Christchurch in 1931; an obituary was published in the 1932 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack . [9] [10] [11]

References

  1. ↑ Canterbury (New Zealand) players, CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 July 2020. (subscription required)
  2. ↑ W Bent, CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 July 2020. (subscription required)
  3. ↑ Harry Davis, CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 October 2020. (subscription required)
  4. ↑ James Denham, CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 October 2020. (subscription required)
  5. ↑ John Medlow, CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 October 2020. (subscription required)
  6. ↑ W Pierce, CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 July 2020. (subscription required)
  7. ↑ C Strange, CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 July 2020. (subscription required)
  8. ↑ H Watson, CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 July 2020. (subscription required)
  9. ↑ McCarron, p. 15.
  10. ↑ Barrett, Mr John Stephen, Obituaries in 1932, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack , 1932. (Available online at CricInfo. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  11. ↑ John Barrett, CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 September 2024. (subscription required)

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