Wilf Haskell
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| Full name | Wilfred John Raymond Haskell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 December 1936 Karachi, British India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium-fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Sacha Haskell (daughter) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1955/56–1968/69 | Wellington | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 10 January 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wilfred John Raymond Haskell (born 12 December 1936) is an Indian-born New Zealand former cricketer, schoolteacher and a sports historian.
Life and career
[edit]Wilf Haskell was born in Karachi, where his father was a missionary and schoolteacher. In the 1940s the family moved to Nelson, where Wilf attended Nelson College.[1]
An accurate medium-fast bowler, Haskell made his first-class cricket debut for Wellington in 1955–56, but did not establish himself in the team until 1967–68. In the first match of the 1967–68 season, against Otago, he took 6 for 6 off 16 overs to dismiss Otago for 85 in the second innings and give Wellington victory by 149 runs.[2]
He became a schoolteacher, teaching at a number of schools in New Zealand, and finally, from 1980 to 1998, at Wellington College. Since he retired from teaching he has written sports history.[1]
Books
[edit]- Seasons of Honour: A Centenary History of New Zealand Hockey 1902–2002 (2002) (with Geoff Watson)
- Faster Stronger Higher: Golden Olympians of New Zealand: Volume I: 1912–1968 (2011)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Romanos, Joseph (19 May 2011). "Wellingtonian interview: Wilf Haskell". stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
- ^ "Wellington v Otago 1967-68". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
External links
[edit]- 1936 births
- Living people
- New Zealand cricketers
- Wellington cricketers
- New Zealand male field hockey players
- Cricketers from Karachi
- Indian emigrants to New Zealand
- Anglo-Indian people
- New Zealand people of Anglo-Indian descent
- New Zealand sportspeople of Indian descent
- New Zealand sports historians
- New Zealand schoolteachers
- People educated at Nelson College
- 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen