Jack Ashenden
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Full name | Jack Gilbert Ashenden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Wellington, New Zealand | 12 May 1911||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 14 November 1992 Sydney, Australia | (aged 81)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1935/36–1944/45 | Wellington | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 6 September 2015 |
Jack Gilbert Ashenden (12 May 1911 – 14 November 1992) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Wellington from 1936 to 1945.
A right-arm medium-pace bowler, Ashenden partnered Tom Pritchard in opening the bowling for Wellington in the 1938-39 Plunket Shield, when he and Pritchard were two of only six players in the competition to take 10 wickets or more.[1] He took 6 for 44 in the second innings of the innings victory over Otago.[2] At the end of the season he played for New Zealand against Sir Julien Cahn's XI.[3] He had a long career in senior Wellington cricket, taking 846 wickets by the time he retired in 1957.[4]
Ashenden married Joyce Hurren in the late 1930s, and they lived in Wellington.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Bowling in the Plunket Shield 1938-39". CricketArchive. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
- ^ "Wellington v Otago 1938-39". CricketArchive. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
- ^ "New Zealand v Sir J Cahn's XI 1938-39". CricketArchive. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
- ^ "People in the Play". Press: 5. 2 November 1957.
- ^ "Engagement". Evening Post: 17. 13 December 1935.
- ^ "Births". Evening Post: 1. 1 August 1939.
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