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Full name | Rupert Peter Owens Drysdale | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Forest Row, East Sussex, England | 7 January 1989|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm offbreak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2009/10–present | Bay of Plenty | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2021/22–2023/24 | Northern Districts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,1 October 2024 |
Rupert Peter Owens Drysdale (born 7 January 1989) is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for Bay of Plenty and Northern Districts. [1] [2] After playing for the Bay of Plenty team in the Hawke Cup since the 2009/10 cricket season, [3] Drysdale made his first-class cricket debut for Northern Districts in April 2022,in the penultimate match of the 2021–22 Plunket Shield season. [4] Due to an outbreak of COVID-19 within the team,seven players made their first-class debuts for the team in the same match,with Drysdale doing so at the age of 33. [5]
Drysdale was born in Forest Row,East Sussex,England in 1989, [3] and now lives in Tauranga,New Zealand. [5] He is the younger brother of New Zealand rower MahéDrysdale, [5] who has won two gold medals and a bronze at three different editions of the Olympic Games. [6]
Drysdale has played cricket in England,featuring for the second XI for both Derbyshire and Leicestershire during the 2014 and 2015 summers respectively. [3] In 2014,Drysdale also played in the Huddersfield Cricket League in West Yorkshire,England,for Scholes cricket team. [7]
In October 2014,Drysdale became the eleventh cricketer for Bay of Plenty to play in fifty matches for the team. [8] Five years later,in December 2019,Drysdale was only the third cricketer for the team to feature in one hundred matches for the side. [9] In his 100 matches for the team,Drysdale had scored more than 3,000 runs,including three centuries,and had taken 24 wickets. [10] Drysdale had also captained the team during five seasons of the Hawke Cup. [10]
Drysdale was originally scheduled to make his first-class debut for Northern Districts against Auckland in March 2020,during the 2019–20 Plunket Shield season. [5] However,the final two rounds of that tournament were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [11]
In April 2022,Northern Districts' penultimate match of the 2021–22 Plunket Shield season,against Central Districts,was abandoned on the fourth and final day after multiple cases of COVID-19 were reported within their squad. [12] Six days later,Northern Districts played their final round-robin match of the 2021–22 Plunket Shield season,against Wellington. [4] Due to the number of COVID-19 cases within the squad, [13] Northern Districts had nineteen players unavailable for their final match of the season. [5] Drysdale,at the age of 33,made his first-class cricket debut in the match. [5] Also making their debuts alongside Drysdale were Ben Pomare,Chris Swanson,Fergus Lellman,Josh Brown,Sam Varcoe and Sandeep Patel. [4] It was the highest number of debutants in the same match for Northern Districts since their inaugural first-class fixture in 1956. [14] In the first innings of the match,Drysdale only scored five runs,before he was dismissed leg before wicket (lbw) by Nathan Smith. [4] On making his debut,Drysdale said it was a great opportunity,but he was mindful of the cricketers in his team who had missed out,as several of them were very ill. [5] In the second innings,Drysdale top-scored for Northern Districts with 62 runs,but the team were all out for 161 runs. [4] With a target of just 54 runs to win the match,Wellington went on to win by nine wickets,with Drysdale taking the one wicket,that of opener Devan Vishvaka. [4]
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