Edwin Fuller, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Edwin Fuller

cricketer

Date of Birth: 17-May-1850

Place of Birth: Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Date of Death: 01-Aug-1917

Profession: cricketer

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Edwin Fuller

  • Edwin Thomas Augustus Fuller (17 May 1850 – 1 August 1917) was an Australian-born cricketer who played first-class cricket for Canterbury in New Zealand from 1873 to 1882. Edwin Fuller was a fast bowler.
  • On his first-class debut, in the annual match between Canterbury and Otago in 1872–73, he opened the attack and, bowling unchanged, took 5 for 20 and 6 for 23 in an innings victory for Canterbury.
  • Ten of his 11 victims were bowled.
  • In his next match, in 1873–74, he took 5 for 38 and 7 for 47 when Canterbury lost by 7 runs to Auckland.
  • Later that season Otago beat Canterbury by an innings, but Fuller still took 6 for 44.
  • In 1881–82 he took 6 for 62 and 5 for 29 against Otago, but Otago won by 77 runs.His most notable feat occurred not in a first-class match but when a Canterbury XV played the touring Australians in January 1878.
  • He did not bowl in the first innings when Canterbury dismissed the Australians for 46.
  • In the second innings, after Canterbury had taken a first-innings lead of 89, he took advantage of a pitch that "played rather bumpily", taking 8 for 35 to restrict the Australians' second innings to 143.
  • Canterbury had only 55 to chase, which they reached with eight wickets down and six to spare.
  • It was the only defeat the Australians suffered on their tour of New Zealand.
  • Fuller was also Canterbury's most successful bowler when the English team visited in 1881-82, taking 4 for 49 off 54 four-ball overs.Bowling for the Midland club in senior club cricket in Christchurch in 1880-81 he took 83 wickets at an average of 9.7.
  • He ran a sporting goods shop in central Christchurch.He returned to Australia with his wife and family in March 1883.

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