Henry Baker (cricketer)
Personal information | |
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Full name | Henry Stephen Baker |
Born | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | 26 December 1904
Died | 7 November 1926 Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand | (aged 21)
Domestic team information | |
Years | Team |
1925/26 | Otago |
Only FC | 25 December 1925 Otago v Canterbury |
Source: CricInfo, 1 January 2022 |
Henry Stephen Baker (26 December 1904 – 7 November 1926) was an Australian-born cricketer who played a single first-class cricket match in New Zealand for Otago.[1]
Baker was born at Melbourne in Victoria in 1904. He played in his only known cricket match during the 1925/26 season, against Canterbury. He scored a total of two runs in the match.[2] Baker also played rugby union and was described as a "fine all-round athlete" and as a "prominent member of the Dunedin Football Club".[3]
Baker lived in the Dunedin suburb of Kensington, and worked as a factory hand. He died in November 1926 at the age of 21, less than 12 months after his only first-class appearance. He drowned while swimming off Tomahawk beach in Dunedin.[3]
References[]
- ^ Henry Baker, CricInfo. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ^ Henry Baker, CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 January 2022. (subscription required)
- ^ a b "Bathing Fatality". Otago Daily Times (19941): 10. 8 November 1926. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1904 births
- 1926 deaths
- New Zealand cricketers
- Otago cricketers
- Burials at Andersons Bay Cemetery
- Cricketers from Melbourne
- Australian emigrants to New Zealand
- Deaths by drowning
- Accidental deaths in New Zealand
- New Zealand cricket biography, 1900s birth stubs