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New Zealand cricketer

Albert Geddes
Personal information
Full nameAlbert Edward Geddes
Born(1871-08-22)22 August 1871
Melbourne, Australia
Died12 August 1935(1935-08-12) (aged 63)
Dunedin, New Zealand
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingSlow left-arm orthodox
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1899/1900–1903/04Otago
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 9
Runs scored 266
Batting average 19.00
100s/50s 0/1
Top score 77
Balls bowled 296
Wickets 7
Bowling average 18.71
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 3/5
Catches/stumpings 12/0
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 6 May 2020

Albert Edward Geddes (22 August 1871 – 12 August 1935) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played nine first-class matches for Otago between 1899 and 1904.

Life and career

Born in Melbourne, Geddes played cricket and Australian rules football in Victoria and Western Australia before moving to Dunedin in 1898. A left-handed batsman and left-arm spin bowler, he was also a respected captain in club cricket and for Otago.

Geddes' highest first-class score was 77 when he captained Otago to an innings victory over Hawke's Bay in 1901-02 and added 171 for the fourth wicket with James Baker. In Otago's narrow victory over Canterbury in January 1900, he was the highest scorer on either side with 41 not out in the second innings; he and Alec Downes took the score from 62 for 7 to 131 for 8, "completely altering the aspect of affairs".

His best first-class bowling figures were 3 for 5 and 2 for 12 on his first-class debut against Hawke's Bay in December 1899. He also took 6 for 14 for Otago against Southland in December 1898. In a senior Dunedin club match in February 1905 he took nine wickets in each innings for match figures of 18 for 79.

Geddes was also a rugby union player. He served as president of the Southland Rugby Football Union in the 1920s.

Geddes married Hettie Critchley in Dunedin in July 1903. He had a jewellery shop in Port Chalmers until 1907, when he moved to Winton in Southland and opened a jewellery shop there. He died suddenly at his home in Dunedin in August 1935, survived by his wife and their two sons.

References

  1. "Albert Geddes". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  2. ^ "A Cricketer's Death". Evening Star: 13. 13 August 1935.
  3. "Otago v Hawke's Bay 1901-02". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  4. "Canterbury v Otago". Evening Star: 3. 6 January 1900.
  5. "Hawke's Bay v Otago 1899-00". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  6. "Cricket". Otago Daily Times: 3. 28 December 1898.
  7. "Cricket". Otago Daily Times: 3. 27 February 1905.
  8. "Mr. A. E. Geddes". Otago Daily Times: 9. 14 August 1935.
  9. "Sporting". Southland Times: 3. 27 July 1921.
  10. "Marriage". Evening Star: 4. 28 August 1903.
  11. "Auctions". Evening Star: 5. 5 July 1907.
  12. "Late Items". Western Star: 3. 24 November 1908.
  13. "Deaths". Evening Star: 8. 12 August 1935.

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