Harold Lusk

He should not be confused with his older cousin, Hugh Butler Lusk
Harold Lusk
Personal information
Full name Harold Butler Lusk
Born (1877-06-08)8 June 1877
Auckland, New Zealand
Died 13 February 1961(1961-02-13) (aged 83)
Auckland
Batting style Right-handed
Relations Hugh Lusk (cousin)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1899-1900 to 1905-06, 1918-19 to 1920-21 Auckland
1906-07 to 1912-13 Canterbury
1917-18 Wellington
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 35
Runs scored 1451
Batting average 22.67
100s/50s 2/4
Top score 151 not out
Balls bowled 634
Wickets 8
Bowling average 42.25
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling 4/33
Catches/stumpings 34/0
Source: Cricket Archive, 11 May 2014

Harold Butler Lusk (8 June 1877 – 13 February 1961) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1899 to 1921.

Lusk made his first-class debut as a batsman for Auckland in the 1899-1900 season, but it was not until his 16th match, in 1907-08, after he had transferred to Canterbury, that he scored his first fifty, 66 against Auckland in the first-ever match in the Plunket Shield.[1] In 1909-10 he scored his first century, 102 out of a team total of 241, opening against Otago,[2] and was selected to open for New Zealand in the two matches against Australia; he scored 83 runs in four innings. The next season he scored 151 not out against Auckland, adding 148 in an unbroken fifth-wicket stand with Dan Reese that took Canterbury to their first victory in the Plunket Shield.[3] It was also Canterbury's first Plunket Shield century. Lusk later returned to play for Auckland, appearing for the last time in the 1920-21 season, when he was 43, and made 43 (top score) and 31.[4]

Lusk was the New Zealand Amateur Golf Champion in 1910.[5] He was a schoolmaster at Christ's College, Christchurch, who taught at Rugby School in England on a teacher exchange in 1913.[6] When he returned to Christ's College, he coached Tom Lowry.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Canterbury v Auckland 1907-08
  2. ↑ Canterbury v Otago 1909-10
  3. ↑ Canterbury v Auckland 1910-11
  4. ↑ Wellington v Auckland 1920-21
  5. ↑ New Zealand Amateur Champions
  6. ↑ Greg Ryan, "Where the Game Was Played by Decent Chaps", PhD thesis, University of Canterbury, 1996, pp. 264-65.
  7. ↑ Bill Francis, Tom Lowry: Leader in a Thousand, Trio, Wellington, 2010, p. 34.

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