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William Crawshaw

Personal information
Full name	William Joseph Crawshaw
Born	1861 Melbourne, Australia
Died	11 February 1938 (aged 76–77) Caterham, England
Batting	Left-handed
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1877/78–1883/84	Otago
1885/86–1887/88	Canterbury
1891/92	Wellington
1896/97–1897/98	Taranaki
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 13 Runs scored 393 Batting average 17.08 100s/50s 1/0 Top score 106 Catches/stumpings 10/0
Source: CricketArchive, 14 January 2017

William Crawshaw (1861 – 11 February 1938) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Canterbury, Otago, Taranaki and Wellington between 1877 and 1898.

Crawshaw moved around New Zealand in his work for the Bank of New Zealand. An opening batsman, he scored 106, his only first-class century, in March 1897, when Taranaki beat Hawke's Bay by an innings and 42 runs. It was also Taranaki's only individual first-class century, in Taranaki's only first-class victory.

In January 1898, in a non-first-class match for Taranaki against a team from Wanganui, he carried his bat for 174 not out in a team total of 363 in five hours. It was part of a sequence of four innings in which he made 54 not out, 115 not out, 174 not out, and 71: 414 runs for once out.

Crawshaw retired in 1916 and went to live in England.

External links

• William Crawshaw at Cricinfo