Charles Hickey (cricketer)

Charles Hickey
Personal information
Full name
Charles Ernest Henry Hickey
Born(1880-04-10)10 April 1880
Wellington, New Zealand
Died9 June 1919(1919-06-09) (aged 39)
Wellington, New Zealand
BowlingRight-arm leg-spin
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1902/03–1910/11Wellington
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 8
Runs scored 84
Batting average 9.33
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 35
Balls bowled 930
Wickets 26
Bowling average 18.80
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 4/50
Catches/stumpings 5/–
Source: Cricinfo, 6 June 2020

Charles Ernest Henry Hickey (10 April 1880 – 9 June 1919) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Wellington from 1903 to 1910.[1]

Personal life

Hickey was born in Wellington, the son of a prominent local journalist and editor, M. C. Hickey. He became a businessman in Wellington.[2]

Hickey married Amy Eversleigh in Wellington in June 1908.[3] She died on 27 May 1909 after a short illness.[4] He died after an illness in June 1919. Their daughter survived them.[2]

Cricket career

Hickey was a slow leg-spin bowler who was prominent in Wellington club cricket for the Phoenix and East clubs in the years before the First World War.[2] His success for East held back the early career of his club teammate, fellow leg-spinner Clarrie Grimmett.[5]

His best first-class bowling figures were 4 for 50 and 3 for 36 in Wellington's victory over Canterbury in 1909-10.[6] In a two-day non-first-class match between Wellington and Nelson in Wellington in December 1902, Hickey, bowling unchanged throughout the first innings, took 9 for 27, puzzling the Nelson batsmen with his slow leg-breaks.[7] His batting was seldom productive, but he did score 35 to give Wellington a chance of victory in the Plunket Shield match against Auckland in 1910-11.[8]

References

  1. ^ "First-Class Matches played by Charles Hickey". CricketArchive. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Personal Items". Dominion. 10 June 1919. p. 4.
  3. ^ "Social and Personal". Dominion: 5. 1 July 1908.
  4. ^ "Personalia". New Zealand Times. 28 May 1909. p. 5.
  5. ^ "With Bat and Ball". New Zealand Times. 23 December 1911. p. 20.
  6. ^ "Wellington v Canterbury 1909-10". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Cricket: Wellington v. Nelson". New Zealand Times. 27 December 1902. p. 7.
  8. ^ "Auckland v Wellington 1910-11". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 June 2020.