Arthur Fisher (New Zealand cricketer)
![]() Arthur Fisher, 1898-99 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Arthur Hadfield Fisher | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Nelson, New Zealand | 11 February 1871||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 23 March 1961 Dunedin, New Zealand | (aged 90)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Left-arm medium pace | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1890-91 to 1909-10 | Otago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 17 September 2014 |
Arthur Hadfield Fisher (11 February 1871 – 23 March 1961) was a New Zealand cricketer, golfer and businessman.
Life and career[]
Fisher was born in Nelson, New Zealand.[1] He played for Otago from 1890–91 to 1909-10 as a left-arm medium-pace bowler, taking 197 wickets at an average of 16.38. Against a touring Queensland cricket team in 1896-97 he took 9 for 50 in the first innings.[2]
Fisher represented New Zealand, in the days before New Zealand had Test status, in matches against Australian and English teams. The Australians were so impressed with his bowling on their tour of New Zealand in 1896 that they invited him to try out for the Australian Test team in 1897-98. He went to Melbourne and practised there, but was unable to reproduce his New Zealand form on the harder Australian pitches, and was not selected in the Australian team.[3] Against the MCC in Wellington in 1906–07, he took 4 for 25 and 5 for 61 in a 56-run victory for New Zealand.[4]
Fisher won the New Zealand Amateur golf championship in 1904, beating 3&2 in the final.[5]
Personal life[]
On 15 December 1896, at St Peter's Anglican Church in the Dunedin suburb of Caversham, Fisher married Janet Graeme Rollo Brodrick. Following her death on 23 September 1928, he married Elizabeth Charlotte Farrant in the same church on 16 December 1930. There were no children of either marriage. Elizabeth died on 15 December 1957 and Arthur died in Dunedin on 23 March 1961, aged 90.[1]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ a b Richmond, David. "Arthur Hadfield Fisher". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
- ^ Otago v Queensland 1896-97
- ^ "Notes by Long Slip". Otago Witness: 58. 19 August 1903.
- ^ New Zealand v MCC 1906-07
- ^ "New Zealand golf tournament". New Zealand Herald. Vol. XLI, no. 12699. 31 October 1904. p. 5. Retrieved 1 November 2020 – via Papers Past.
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- 1871 births
- 1961 deaths
- New Zealand businesspeople
- Cricketers from Nelson, New Zealand
- New Zealand cricketers
- Pre-1930 New Zealand representative cricketers
- Otago cricketers
- New Zealand male golfers
- Amateur golfers
- South Island cricketers