Raymond Strange

Raymond Brackley Strange (27 October 1878 – 17 September 1962) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played in nine first-class matches for Canterbury from 1901 to 1904.[1][2] He later lived in Australia.

Raymond Strange
Personal information
Full name
Raymond Brackley Strange
Born(1878-10-27)27 October 1878
Christchurch, New Zealand
Died17 September 1962(1962-09-17) (aged 83)
Sydney, Australia
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1901/02–1903/04Canterbury
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 9
Runs scored 320
Batting average 20.00
100s/50s 0/1
Top score 52
Balls bowled 163
Wickets 5
Bowling average 19.80
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 2/21
Catches/stumpings 2/0
Source: Cricinfo, 20 October 2020

Life and career

Born in Christchurch, Strange took a wicket with his first ball in first-class cricket: in his second match, he ended Hawke's Bay's first innings by bowling the last batsman, Tom Dent, with his only delivery.[3] Not until the 1988–89 season did another New Zealander (Stephen Hotter) take a wicket with his first ball in first-class cricket.[4]

Strange was only an occasional bowler. He played as a batsman, and made his highest score of 52 against Wellington in January 1904.[5] He was selected to represent South Island against North Island later that month, when he failed as an opening batsman but took four wickets in South Island's narrow victory. It was his last first-class match.[6]

Strange moved to Sydney in December 1904[7] and lived in Parramatta, where he married Meta Mance in January 1910.[8] In 1932 he set up a business with Meta as a manufacturer's representative in Hobart,[9] but she died there in June 1934. They had four daughters.[10] He spent some years working as a book-keeper on a sheep station in the Riverina region of New South Wales[11] before returning to Sydney, where he died in September 1962, aged 83.[2]

See also

References
  1. "Raymond Strange". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  2. "Raymond Strange". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  3. "Canterbury v Hawke's Bay 1901-02". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  4. Francis Payne & Ian Smith, eds, 2021 New Zealand Cricket Almanack, Upstart Press, Takapuna, 2021, pp. 24.
  5. "Wellington v Canterbury 1903-04". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  6. "North Island v South Island 1903-04". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  7. "Personal". Lyttelton Times: 5. 23 December 1904.
  8. "Weddings". Daily Telegraph: 12. 2 February 1910.
  9. "New Companies". The Mercury: 4. 9 November 1932.
  10. "Deaths". The Mercury: 1. 2 July 1934.
  11. "Australia, Electoral Rolls, New South Wales, 1943". Ancestry.com.au. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
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