Richard Torrance
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Full name | Richard Cameron Torrance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Dunedin, New Zealand | 14 August 1884||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 28 September 1972 Dunedin, New Zealand | (aged 88)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Left-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1905–1928 | Otago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tests umpired | 1 (1933) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 16 July 2013 |
Richard Torrance (14 August 1884 – 28 September 1972) was a New Zealand cricket umpire and player. He stood in one Test match, New Zealand vs. England, in 1933. He played 42 first-class matches for Otago between 1905 and 1928.[1]
Torrance served in Europe with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the First World War as a private.[2]
An accurate left-arm opening bowler, Torrance's best first-class match figures were 42–11–93–14 (7 for 51 and 7 for 42) against Hawke's Bay in the 1908-09 season,[3] when he was the most successful bowler in New Zealand first-class cricket with 28 wickets at an average of 11.57.[4] His best first-class innings figures were 7 for 21 against Southland in 1919-20, when he bowled unchanged through both innings, finishing with match figures of 23.3–8–41–11.[5] He sometimes made useful runs in the lower order, as when in 1925-26 he scored 28 against Canterbury, adding 105 for the last wicket with Reginald Cherry, who was thus able to make his only first-class century.[6][7] In club cricket, which he played in Dunedin until 1931, he played as an all-rounder.[6]
Torrance umpired eight first-class matches in New Zealand between 1932 and 1938, including the First Test in 1932-33.[8]
See also[]
- List of Test cricket umpires
- English cricket team in New Zealand in 1932–33
- List of Otago representative cricketers
References[]
- ^ "Richard Torrance". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
- ^ "Richard Cameron Torrance". Auckland Museum. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- ^ "Hawke's Bay v Otago 1908-09". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
- ^ "First-class Bowling in New Zealand for 1908/09". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- ^ "Otago v Southland 1919-20". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
- ^ a b H.P.S. (20 November 1931). "Personalities in Sport: No. XXVIII: R. C. Torrance". Evening Star: 14.
- ^ "Canterbury v Otago 1925-26". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
- ^ "Richard Torrance as Umpire in First-Class Matches". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
External links[]
- Richard Torrance at ESPNcricinfo
- Dick Torrance at CricketArchive
- 1884 births
- 1972 deaths
- New Zealand cricketers
- Otago cricketers
- Cricketers from Dunedin
- New Zealand Test cricket umpires
- New Zealand military personnel of World War I