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This article is about cricketers who played for the New Zealand representative side. For professionals employed by the Lancashire League side in England, see List of Nelson Cricket Club professionals.

This is a list of cricketers who played first-class cricket for the Nelson cricket team in New Zealand. Nelson played a total of 17 first-class matches between the 1873–74 season and 1891–92, all but one of which were played against Wellington. The team has competed in the Hawke Cup competition for minor associations from 1921–22.

Players are listed with the seasons in which they played. Some players also appeared in first-class or Hawke Cup matches for other sides.

Contents

A

  • Joseph Adcock
  • John Arnold
  • William Arnold
  • James Askew
  • Frederick Atkinson

B

C

D

  • Henry Dencker
  • William Denshire

E

F

G

  • Arthur Green
  • Alfred Greenfield
  • Francis Greenfield

H

K

L

  • Austin Lines
  • William Littlejohn

M

  • Robert Malcolm

N

  • John Naylor

P

  • Leslie Pattie
  • Samuel Powell

R

  • George Richardson

S

  • Robert Satchell
  • Melville Sellon
  • George Silcock
  • James Speed

T

  • Robert Tennent

W

  • BH White
  • James Wigzell
  • Arthur Wix
  • James Wood
  • William Wratt

Notes

  1. Born in England in 1858, Balmain was a soldier who spent only a short time in New Zealand during which time he played his only known cricket. His only first-class match was a December 1880 fixture against Wellington. Batting at number three, Balmain made 50 and 40, the two highest scores on either side in the drawn match. His half-century was one of only two scored by Nelson players in their 17 first-class matches. One newspaper described Balmain’s 50 as "the best innings seen on the Wellington ground for a long time". He had played some local cricket before the Wellington match, and appeared again for Nelson in February 1881, one of 22 Nelson cricketers who played the touring Australians. In September 1884, Balmain married Laura Harris at Dereham in Ontario, Canada. She died of tuberculosis in Oxford, Ontario, in 1897 and Balmain is believed to have died in Canada in 1904.

References

  1. Nelson (New Zealand), CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-12-25. (subscription required)
  2. First-class matches played by Nelson, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-12-25. (subscription required)
  3. McCarron, p. 4.
  4. Carman AH (1981) A guide to first-class matches played in New Zealand, 1863 to 1980, p. 12. Nottingham: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. (Available online at The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2024-12-25.)
  5. Louis Balmain, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2025-01-10. (subscription required)
  6. McCarron, p. 15.
  7. Wellington v Nelson, Nelson Evening Mail, volume XV, issue 264, 30 December 1880, p. 2. (Available onlone at Papers Past. Retrieved 2025-01-10.)
  8. Lewis Henry Fletcher Belmain, Ancestry. Retrieved 2020-10-23
  9. Laura A Balmain, Ancestry. Retrieved 2020-10-23.

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