Noel Harford
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30 August 1930 Winton, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died |
30 March 1981 (aged 50) Auckland, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-hand bat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm slow-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 74) | 26 October 1955 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 24 July 1958 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 1 April 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Noel Sherwin Harford (30 August 1930 – 30 March 1981) was a New Zealand cricketer who played eight Tests in the 1950s. In domestic cricket he played for Central Districts from 1953 to 1959 and for Auckland from 1963 to 1967.
Career
A neat right-handed batsman strong at driving and pulling but weak in defence and against spin, Harford came to prominence on the New Zealand tour to Pakistan and India in 1955-56, making his Test debut against Pakistan at Lahore, scoring 93 and 64.[1] That debut, though, proved by some distance to be Harford's most successful Test appearance.
In England in the wet summer of 1958, Harford made his maiden first-class century against Oxford University, scoring 158, his highest first-class score, and sharing a partnership of 204 with his captain, John Reid in two hours and 10 minutes.[2] He also scored 127 (a "brilliant century")[3] against Glamorgan. However, in eight innings in four Test matches that season, he scored just 41 runs and reached double figures only once, a gritty innings of 23 at Edgbaston in which he had to retire for a period after being hit in the face by a bouncer from Fred Trueman.[4]
He played no further Tests after the tour. His highest score in the Plunket Shield was 103 not out for Auckland against Central Districts in 1965-66. He played for Manawatu, Hawke's Bay and Franklin in the Hawke Cup between 1952 and 1971.
He also played basketball for New Zealand in the 1950s.
See also
References
- ↑ "Scorecard: Pakistan v New Zealand 1955-56". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Oxford University v New Zealanders 1958". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2010-02-05.
- ↑ Wisden 1959, p. 260.
- ↑ Wisden 1959, pp. 244-45.