Thomas Cobcroft, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Thomas Cobcroft

Australian cricketer and umpire

Date of Birth: 12-Feb-1867

Place of Birth: Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia

Date of Death: 09-Mar-1938

Profession: cricket umpire, cricketer

Nationality: Australia, New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Thomas Cobcroft

  • Leslie Thomas Cobcroft (12 February 1867 – 9 March 1938) was a first-class cricketer in Australia and New Zealand, and Test match umpire in New Zealand. Cobcroft was born in Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia.
  • He became a solicitor. A right-hand batsman and off-break bowler, he played 23 matches of first-class cricket from 1895/96 to 1909/10.
  • He captained the New South Wales side that toured New Zealand in 1895/96.
  • He settled in New Zealand, and played for Canterbury from 1897/98 to 1899/00 and for Wellington from 1906/07 to 1909/10.
  • He was the third captain for New Zealand in first-class cricket, captaining the side that toured Australia in 1898/99.
  • He also captained Canterbury, Wellington and Wairarapa sides. In first-class games, he scored a total of 868 runs in 42 innings, at the relatively low batting average of 21.70, including 5 half-centuries.
  • He made his highest score, 85 not out, carrying his bat for New South Wales against Wellington in December 1895.
  • He took 37 wickets at the excellent bowling average of 18.97, with best bowling of 6/23 for Canterbury against Wellington in December 1899 (he also hit 70 and 44 with the bat in that match).
  • His only other 5-wicket haul came for Wellington against Otago in December 1907: he took 4/20 and 5/87 in that match. He umpired 14 first-class matches from March 1925 to February 1935, all in New Zealand.
  • He umpired three Test matches: the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Tests between New Zealand and England, played consecutively in New Zealand in January and February 1930.
  • He stood with Ken Cave in all three matches, which were all drawn.
  • The 2nd Test was played at Basin Reserve in Wellington.
  • The first two days of the 3rd Test at Eden Park in Auckland were washed out, so the 4th Test was arranged a week later. He contributed a cricket column in the weekly New Zealand Truth during the cricket seasons from September 1922 to March 1927, beginning with a series on the reasons why the standard of New Zealand cricket was inferior to Australia's.He was also a cricket coach.
  • For the last 15 years of his life he worked as a clerk in the railways, and died at his home in Petone.
  • He and his wife Ethel had two daughters and a son.

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