William Crawshaw (1861 – 11 February 1938) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Canterbury, Otago, Taranaki and Wellington between 1877 and 1898.[1]
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | William Joseph Crawshaw | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1861 Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 11 February 1938 (aged 76–77) Caterham, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1877/78–1883/84 | Otago | ||||||||||||||
| 1885/86–1887/88 | Canterbury | ||||||||||||||
| 1891/92 | Wellington | ||||||||||||||
| 1896/97–1897/98 | Taranaki | ||||||||||||||
| Career statistics | |||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 14 January 2017 | |||||||||||||||
Crawshaw moved around New Zealand in his work for the Bank of New Zealand.[2] An opening batsman, he scored 106, his only first-class century, in March 1897, when Taranaki beat Hawke's Bay by an innings and 42 runs.[3] It was also Taranaki's only individual first-class century, in Taranaki's only first-class victory.
In January 1898, in a non-first-class match for Taranaki against a team from Wanganui, he carried his bat for 174 not out in a team total of 363 in five hours.[4] It was part of a sequence of four innings in which he made 54 not out, 115 not out, 174 not out, and 71: 414 runs for once out.[5]
Crawshaw retired in 1916 and went to live in England.[6]
References edit
- ^ "William Crawshaw". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ^ Bellringer, Brian (n.d.). The history of Taranaki Cricket 1894 - 2000 (PDF). Taranaki Cricket. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
- ^ "Taranaki v Hawke's Bay 1896-97". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
- ^ "Wanganui v Taranaki". Hawera & Normanby Star. 22 January 1898. p. 2.
- ^ "Cricket Chat". Press. 18 April 1898. p. 2.
- ^ "Mr. W. J. Crawshaw". Press: 21. 3 March 1938.