Richard Torrance, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Torrance

Umpire

Date of Birth: 14-Aug-1884

Place of Birth: Dunedin, Otago Region, New Zealand

Date of Death: 28-Sep-1972

Profession: cricket umpire, cricketer

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Richard Torrance (14 August 1884 – 28 September 1972) was a New Zealand cricket umpire and player.
He stood in one Test match, New Zealand vs.
England, in 1933.
He played 42 first-class matches for Otago between 1905 and 1928.Torrance served in Europe with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the First World War as a private.An accurate left-arm opening bowler, Torrance's best first-class figures were 7 for 21 against Southland in 1919-20.
He bowled unchanged through both innings, finishing with match figures of 23.3–8–41–11.
His best match figures were 42–11–93–14 (7 for 51 and 7 for 42) against Hawke's Bay in 1908-09.
He sometimes made useful runs in the lower order, as when in 1925-26 he scored 28 against Canterbury, adding 105 for the last wicket with Reginald Cherry, who was thus able to make his only first-class century.
In club cricket, which he played in Dunedin until 1931, he played as an all-rounder.Torrance umpired eight first-class matches in New Zealand between 1932 and 1938, including the First Test in 1932-33.