Thomas Albert McFarlane

Thomas Albert McFarlane (9 July 1890 – 20 April 1967) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Otago between 1909 and 1920.[1]

Not to be confused with Thomas MacFarlane.

Thomas McFarlane
Personal information
Full name
Thomas Albert McFarlane
Born(1890-07-09)9 July 1890
Dunedin, New Zealand
Died20 April 1967(1967-04-20) (aged 76)
Palmerston North, New Zealand
BattingRight-handed
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1909/10–1919/20Otago
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 13
Runs scored 442
Batting average 17.68
100s/50s 0/2
Top score 61
Balls bowled 1,229
Wickets 20
Bowling average 27.60
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 4/49
Catches/stumpings 4/–
Source: Cricinfo, 1 April 2019

A middle-order batsman and useful bowler, McFarlane made 60 and 10 and took 3 for 85 in Otago's innings loss to Auckland in the Plunket Shield in 1909–10.[2] Still aged only 19, he was selected in the first of the two matches New Zealand played against Australia later that season, but had no success.[3]

In March 1912, playing senior club cricket in Dunedin for Albion, he scored 211 in about 105 minutes out of the team's final total of 285; his innings included eight sixes.[4] In 1914 The Otago Daily Times cricket columnist "Long Slip" said McFarlane had "all, or nearly all, the essentials of a great batsman" but was let down by his "lack of restraint".[5]

He served with New Zealand forces at Gallipoli in the First World War.[6] In the 1920s excessive drinking led to his imprisonment.[7]

References
  1. "Thomas Albert McFarlane". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  2. "Auckland v Otago 1909-10". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  3. Don Neely & Richard Payne, Men in White: The History of New Zealand International Cricket, 1894–1985, Moa, Auckland, 1986, p. 51.
  4. "Good Scoring". New Zealand Herald: 4. 25 March 1912.
  5. Long Slip (15 January 1914). "Cricket". Otago Daily Times: 10.
  6. "Well-Known Cricketers at the Front". Press: 9. 28 August 1915.
  7. "Athletic 'Swelled Head': Champion Cricketer's Fall". NZ Truth: 6. 7 June 1924.
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