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Full name | Wilfred John Raymond Haskell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Karachi, British India | 12 December 1936||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium-fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Sacha Haskell (daughter) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1955-56 to 1968-69 | Wellington | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,10 January 2017 |
Wilfred John Raymond Haskell (born 12 December 1936) is an Indian-born New Zealand former cricketer,schoolteacher and a sports historian.
Wilf Haskell was born in Karachi,where his father was a missionary and schoolteacher. In the 1940s the family moved to Nelson,where Wilf attended Nelson College. [1]
An accurate medium-fast bowler,Haskell made his first-class cricket debut for Wellington in 1955–56,but did not establish himself in the team until 1967–68. In the first match of the 1967–68 season,against Otago,he took 6 for 6 off 16 overs to dismiss Otago for 85 in the second innings and give Wellington victory by 149 runs. [2]
He became a schoolteacher,teaching at a number of schools in New Zealand,and finally,from 1980 to 1998,at Wellington College. Since he retired from teaching he has written sports history. [1]
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