Norman Dodds (cricketer)

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Norman Dodds
Personal information
Born(1876-08-30)30 August 1876
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Died15 December 1916(1916-12-15) (aged 40)
Hobart
NicknameJoker [1]
BattingRight-handed
RoleWicketkeeper-batsman
Relations Sir John Dodds (father)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1898-99 to 1907-08 Tasmania
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches16
Runs scored610
Batting average 21.78
100s/50s0/3
Top score81
Balls bowled
Wickets 1
Bowling average 44.00
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match0
Best bowling1/34
Catches/stumpings 24/8
Source: Cricinfo, 23 May 2015

Norman Dodds (30 August 1876 – 15 December 1916) played first-class cricket for Tasmania from 1899 to 1908, and toured New Zealand with the Australian team in 1909-10, but did not play Test cricket.

First-class cricket is an official classification of the highest-standard international or domestic matches in the sport of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each although, in practice, a team might play only one innings or none at all.

Tasmania cricket team australian Cricket team

The Tasmanian cricket team, nicknamed the Tigers, represents the Australian state of Tasmania in cricket. They compete annually in the Australian domestic senior men's cricket season, which consists of the first-class Sheffield Shield and the limited overs Matador BBQs One-Day Cup.

New Zealand Country in Oceania

New Zealand is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmasses—the North Island, and the South Island —and around 600 smaller islands. New Zealand is situated some 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 mi) south of the Pacific island areas of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans. During its long period of isolation, New Zealand developed a distinct biodiversity of animal, fungal, and plant life. The country's varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks, such as the Southern Alps, owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, while its most populous city is Auckland.

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Early life

Dodds was the youngest of three sons of Sir John Dodds, who was Chief Justice and Lieutenant Governor of Tasmania. Norman Dodds was educated at Queen's College, Hobart, where he was prominent in the First XI. [2]

Sir John Stokell Dodds was an English Australian politician and Chief Justice of Tasmania.

The Chief Justice of Tasmania is the senior judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania and the highest ranking judicial officer in the Australian state of Tasmania. The Chief Justice is both the judicial head of the Supreme Court as well as the administrative head. He or she is responsible for arranging the business of the court and establishing its rules and procedures.

Cricket career

In his first innings on his first-class debut against Victoria in 1898-99 Dodds batted at number 11 and added 122 for the last wicket with William Ward, which is still the Tasmanian record for the last wicket. [3] He played in most of Tasmania's matches for the next 10 seasons, keeping wickets and making useful runs and rising in the batting order. Against MCC in 1903-04, batting at number five, he top-scored with 48 ("a fine exhibition of forceful, plucky batting") in Tasmania's first innings of 141. [4]

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William Ward was an Australian cricketer. He played four first-class matches for Tasmania between 1897 and 1907.

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Although he did not play in either of Tasmania's two first-class matches in 1909-10, Dodds was selected as the deputy wicket-keeper for Australia's tour of New Zealand at the end of the season. He played in three of the first-class matches and the three minor matches, but Charles Gorry kept wicket in the two matches against New Zealand. [9] In the first match, against Wellington, Dodds played as a batsman and made a bright 53 in an opening partnership of 98 with Edgar Mayne. [10] He played no further first-class cricket after the tour.

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Personal life

Dodds married Grace Hodgins in January 1903, [11] and they had twins, a boy and a girl, in January 1906. [12] He was appointed Secretary to Hobart's Metropolitan Drainage Board in 1906. [13] He resigned from the Board in 1910, and took over the management of his father's estate, "Branxholm", near the town of Branxholm in northern Tasmania. [14] Grace died in April 1912. [15] Dodds remarried, but died in December 1916. His second wife gave birth to their son in April 1917. [16]

Branxholm, Tasmania town in Tasmania, Australia

Branxholm is a scenic rural town on the banks of the Ringarooma River in north east Tasmania located 93 km north east of Launceston on the Tasman Highway. It is notable for its saw mill, hop fields and tourism. It has a sprawling street pattern which makes the small town spread across the valley floor.

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References

  1. ↑ Daily Telegraph (Launceston), 25 February 1905, p. 3.
  2. ↑ Mercury , 30 March 1895, p1S.
  3. ↑ "Tasmanian partnership records". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  4. ↑ Daily Telegraph (Launceston), 30 January 1904, p. 5.
  5. ↑ "Victoria v Tasmania 1907-08". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  6. ↑ Examiner (Launceston), 15 February 1909, p. 3.
  7. ↑ Daily Post (Hobart), 1 February 1909, p. 6.
  8. ↑ Mercury, 16 February 1909, p. 5.
  9. ↑ "Australia in New Zealand 1909-10". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  10. ↑ Auckland Star , 15 February 1910, p. 6.
  11. ↑ Mercury, 3 February 1903, p. 1.
  12. ↑ Mercury, 13 January 1906, p. 1.
  13. ↑ Mercury, 30 July 1906, p. 2.
  14. ↑ Daily Telegraph (Launceston), 5 July 1910, p. 4.
  15. ↑ Mercury, 26 April 1912, p. 1.
  16. ↑ Daily Telegraph (Launceston), 14 April 1917, p. 1.
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