Richard William Dalgleish (1880 – 16 September 1955) was a New Zealand cricketer who played two matches of first-class cricket for Hawke's Bay in 1907 and 1908.

Dick Dalgleish
Personal information
Full name
Richard William Dalgleish
Born1880
Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland
Died16 September 1955 (aged 75)[1]
Napier, New Zealand
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast-medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1906-07 to 1907-08Hawke's Bay
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 2
Runs scored 45
Batting average 11.25
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 26
Balls bowled 322
Wickets 10
Bowling average 11.90
5 wickets in innings 1
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 5/49
Catches/stumpings 1/0
Source: CricketArchive, 26 July 2019

Dick Dalgleish was born in Scotland, and his family moved to New Zealand in 1893.[2][3] His father, one of the proprietors of the Timaru Woollen Mills, died in June 1900 after falling from a train near Palmerston.[4]

When the touring Lord Hawke's XI played a South Canterbury XVIII at Timaru in February 1903, Dalgleish took five wickets in each innings for South Canterbury.[5] In February 1904 he took 7 for 34 (including a hat-trick) and 7 for 79 when South Canterbury beat Canterbury by seven wickets at Lancaster Park.[6]

For Hawke's Bay, in his second first-class match, against Wellington in 1907-08, Dalgleish took 3 for 20 and 5 for 49.[7] He later served as secretary and treasurer of the Hawke's Bay Cricket Association,[8] secretary of the Napier Amateur Boxing Association,[9] and was the organising secretary of the New Zealand Golf Championships held in Napier in 1919.[10]

Dalgleish married Nita Kelly in Napier on 23 December 1908.[11] They had one daughter. Nita died in 1948, Dick in 1955.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Juanita Leonora Dalgleish". Find a Grave. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Thomas Virtue Dalgleish". Ancestry. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Shipping". Otago Daily Times: 1. 7 January 1893.
  4. ^ "Fatal Accident on the Railway". Timaru Herald: 3. 26 June 1900.
  5. ^ "South Canterbury v Lord Hawke's XI 1902-03". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Cricket". Lyttelton Times: 11. 27 February 1904.
  7. ^ "Hawke's Bay v Wellington 1907-08". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  8. ^ "Cricket". Hastings Standard: 6. 4 October 1915.
  9. ^ "Advertisements". Hastings Standard: 8. 15 December 1910.
  10. ^ "Golf". Hastings Standard: 5. 8 September 1910.
  11. ^ "Social and Personal News". New Zealand Times: 8. 26 December 1908.
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