Leslie Gooden
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Full name | Norman Leslie Gooden | ||||||||||||||
Born | Norwood, South Australia | 27 December 1889||||||||||||||
Died | 5 July 1966 Unley Park, South Australia | (aged 76)||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
1912/13–1913/14 | South Australia | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 8 June 2021 |
Norman Leslie Gooden[1] (27 December 1889 – 5 July 1966) was an Australian cricketer and missionary. He played in two first-class matches for South Australia between 1912 and 1914.[2]
The son of Henry Alfred Gooden[3] and Kate Askew Gooden (nee Whitridge), Gooden was one of eleven children.[4] He attended the Grote Street Church of Christ where he captained the Australian rules football side and led the Bible class.[5]
Cricket career[]
Playing for West Torrens Cricket Club against Glenelg Cricket Club at Hindmarsh Oval in November 1911, Gooden scored 162.[6] Early in the innings, Gooden hooked a ball out of the ground and onto the roof of a passing tram on the way to the city. Later, he played a similar shot that landed on the same tram on its return trip to the Hindmarsh terminus.[6]
Gooden made his debut for South Australia on 25 October 1912, against Western Australia at the Adelaide Oval, where, batting at number three, he scored 49 and 102.[7] He reached his century in 145 minutes, and he and Algy Gehrs added 174 for the third wicket in an hour.[8]
In spite of scoring a century in his maiden first-class match, Gooden did not represent South Australia again until 16 January 1914, against the touring New Zealanders at the Adelaide Oval, scoring nine and 36 not out.[9]
Gooden did not play another first-class match, ending his career with a batting average of 65.33. He did play one match for South Australian Colts, against Victorian Colts, in Melbourne from 13 February 1914, scoring nine and 130.[10]
Missionary life[]
Outside of cricket, Gooden worked for the South Australian Gas Company for many years while heavily involved with the Hindmarsh Baptist Church and the YMCA.[11] He was treasurer of the South Australian YMCA Army Depot during the First World War.[12] He "always had a leaning towards foreign mission work", and joined the evangelical Poona and Indian Village Mission[13] (of which his uncle Henry Gooden was the long-serving Adelaide secretary)[14] and in 1920 moved to Nasrapur, India, to work and preach in small villages in the Bombay Presidency.[13]
Gooden eventually rose to the position of Chairman of the Board of Control of the Poona and Indian Village Mission[15][16] before relocating to London[17] in 1933 to act as Secretary of the Ceylon and India Mission.[18][11]
Gooden met and married Elise Violet Moores in India.
Part of an well-known extended cricketing family,[19] Gooden's uncles Henry and James Gooden represented South Australia[20] uncle George Gooden, was the first curator of the Adelaide Oval[21] and his brother Sydney played for West Torrens Cricket Club.[22]
References[]
- ^ Piesse & Davis, p. 204.
- ^ "Leslie Gooden". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ "GOODEN, Norman Leslie". Genealogy SA. Genealogy SA. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ Chisholm, Alan. "Norman Leslie Gooden (1889 - 1966)". Wikitree. interesting.com. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ "Churches of Christ", News (Adelaide), 7 August 1923, p. 10.
- ^ a b Brien, D. "Les's tram hit", The Advertiser, 2 January 2019, p. 25.
- ^ "South Australia v Western Australia, 1912/13". CricInfo. ESPN. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ "Inter-State Cricket". The Advertiser: 13. 28 October 1912.
- ^ "New Zealand in Australia, 1913/14". Cric Info. ESPN. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ "The World of Cricket", Cricket, April 1914, p. 82.
- ^ a b "S.A. Missionary Returning", The News (Adelaide), 6 August 1937, p. 6.
- ^ "Personal". The Register: 8. 15 March 1924.
- ^ a b "Indian Mission Fields", The Register (Adelaide), 17 July 1923, p. 11.
- ^ "Obituary", Adelaide Observer, 9 April, 1904, .34.
- ^ "Farewell to a Missionary", The Advertiser (Adelaide, 14 May 1924, p. 14.
- ^ Beach, p. 63.
- ^ "Poona and Indian Village Mission", Australian Christian Commonwealth, 11 July 1930, p. 3.
- ^ Taylor, p. 86.
- ^ Sando, p. 89.
- ^ Page, p. 16.
- ^ "Death of Mr G.W. Gooden", The Register (Adelaide), 12 January 1907, p. 7.
- ^ "Cricket", The Advertiser (Adelaide), 1 December 1913, p. 6.
Sources[]
- Beach, H.P. (ed.) (1925) World Missionary Atlas, Edinburgh House Press: London.
- Page, R. (1984) South Australian Cricketers 1877–1984, Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians: Retford, Nottinghamshire.
- Piesse, K. & Davis, C. (2012) Encyclopedia of Australian Cricket Players, New Holland Publishers: Sydney. ISBN 9781742572802.
- Sando, G. (1997) Grass Roots: 100 Years of Adelaide District Cricket 1897-1997, South Australian Cricket Association: North Adelaide. ISBN 1862544352.
- Taylor, H.R. (1960) The History of Churches of Christ in South Australia 1846-1959, The Churches of Christ Evangelistic Union Incorporated South Australia: Adelaide.
External links[]
- 1889 births
- 1966 deaths
- Australian cricketers
- South Australia cricketers
- Cricketers from Adelaide
- Australian Baptist missionaries