Noel Harford
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Born | Winton, New Zealand | 30 August 1930|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 30 March 1981 Auckland, New Zealand | (aged 50)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Test matches 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]
Harford played no further Tests after the tour. His highest score in the
Harford also played basketball for New Zealand in the 1950s.
References
- ^ "2nd Test, Lahore, October 26-31, 1955, New Zealand tour of Pakistan". Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
- ^ "Oxford University v New Zealanders 1958". CricketArchive. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
- ^ Wisden 1959, p. 260.
- ^ Wisden 1959, pp. 244-45.
External links
- Media related to Noel Harford at Wikimedia Commons
- Noel Harford at ESPNcricinfo