Arthur Fisher (New Zealand cricketer)
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1890/91–1909/10 | 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 at Nelson, New Zealand and was educated at Otago Boys' High School in Dunedin.[1][2] 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, an Otago record for innings bowling figures.[2][3]
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.[4] Against a touring MCC side in Wellington in 1906–07, he took 4 for 25 and 5 for 61 in a 56-run victory for New Zealand.[5]
Fisher won the New Zealand Amateur golf championship in 1904, beating George MacEwan 3&2 in the final.[6] He had been Otago champion the previous year.[2]
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]
References
- ^ a b Richmond, David. "Arthur Hadfield Fisher". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
- ^ a b c McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 50. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2
- ^ Seconi A (2011) Greatest moments in Otago sport - Number 92, Otago Daily Times, 16 September 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
- ^ "Notes by Long Slip". Otago Witness: 58. 19 August 1903.
- ^ New Zealand v MCC 1906-07, CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 August 2022. (subscription required)
- ^ "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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