Dick Staples
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| Full name | Arthur Staples | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 January 1878 Wellington, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 13 August 1954 (aged 76) Wellington, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Dick | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1901/02–1903/04 | Wellington | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 15 December 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arthur "Dick" Staples (8 January 1878 – 13 August 1954) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played in four first-class matches for Wellington from 1901 to 1904.[1][2]
Staples was born in Wellington. He attended Wellington College, and worked in Wellington as a bootmaker.[3]
Staples had a reputation in Wellington cricket as a "stonewaller" – an unadventurous, careful batsman.[4][5] He was Wellington's most successful batsman on their short northern tour of December 1903. He was their top scorer in the first match, a loss to Hawke's Bay, when he opened in the first innings and scored 78 in four and a half hours; in the second innings he went in at number six and made 31 not out.[6][7]: 425 He was the highest scorer on either side in the second match, when Wellington defeated Auckland, making 67 in three and three-quarter hours in the first innings.[8][7]: 428 With 212 runs at an average of 42.40, he was the third-highest run-getter in the New Zealand season.[9] However, he played no further first-class matches.
Staples died in Wellington on 13 August 1954, aged 76.[10] He had been predeceased by his wife, Eva Ethel Staples, in 1951.[11]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Dick Staples". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ↑ "Dick Staples". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ↑ Tony McCarron, New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64 – 2010, ACS, Cardiff, 2010, p. 125.
- ↑ "South v. Waiwetu". NZ Truth: 3. 22 January 1910.
- ↑ "Out Door Sports and Pastimes". Free Lance: 17. 13 December 1913.
- ↑ "Hawke's Bay v Wellington 1903–04". Cricinfo. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- 1 2 Reese, T. W. (1927). New Zealand Cricket: 1841–1914. Christchurch: Simpson & Williams.
- ↑ "Auckland v Wellington 1903–04". Cricinfo. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- ↑ "First-class Batting and Fielding in New Zealand for 1903/04". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
- ↑ "Deaths". Evening Post. No. 27686. 14 August 1954. p. 1 – via Papers Past.
- ↑ "Deaths". Evening Post. No. 26627. 13 March 1951. p. 1. Retrieved 10 May 2026 – via Papers Past.