Harry Hay (cricketer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian cricketer (1874-1960)
Date of Birth: 30-Mar-1874
Place of Birth: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Date of Death: 16-May-1960
Profession: cricketer
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Harry Hay (cricketer)
- Harry Hay (30 March 1874 – 16 May 1960) was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket for South Australia in 1903 and 1904. Harry Hay had a sensational first-class debut.
- After several years as a medium-pace bowler with Sturt in the Adelaide senior competition, he was called into the South Australian side as a last-minute replacement for the bowlers Ernie Jones and Harold Kirkwood, who were unavailable.
- South Australia were playing Lord Hawke's XI, in the last match of their long tour of New Zealand and Australia.
- Lord Hawke's XI batted first and made 553, with centuries to Cuthbert Burnup and Tom Taylor, Hay bowling inaccurately and taking no wickets for 70.
- South Australia were dismissed for 304 and followed on, eventually rallying in their second innings to make 454 and set Lord Hawke's XI 206 to win.
- South Australia's champion all-rounder George Giffen was injured and unable to bowl, so Harry Hay opened the bowling.
- He soon took the wickets of Burnup, Frederick Fane and Taylor, all bowled, with consecutive deliveries – a hat-trick.
- Not long afterwards he dismissed Pelham Warner (leg-before) and Bernard Bosanquet (bowled), also with consecutive deliveries, to leave Lord Hawke's XI struggling at 5 for 49.
- Eventually he bowled unchanged throughout the innings, dismissing every batsman except for one who was run out, and South Australia won by 97 runs.
- He had figures of 21.2–4–67–9.
- He was the first player to take a hat-trick on his first-class debut.Hay played again for the state team in 1903–04 but took only seven wickets in four matches, and that was the end of his first-class career.
- After several more years of service for Sturt, he moved to Port Pirie in 1907 to take up a position as manager of the town's branch of the Savings Bank of South Australia.
- Before he left Adelaide he had also represented South Australia at Australian rules football and lacrosse.
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