Harold Monaghan

Harold Wyatt Monaghan (7 October 1886 – 15 October 1958) was a New Zealand first-class cricketer and a clergyman in the Anglican Church.

Harold Monaghan
Personal information
Full nameHarold Wyatt Monaghan
Born(1886-10-07)7 October 1886
Karori, Wellington, New Zealand
Died15 October 1958(1958-10-15) (aged 72)
Levin, New Zealand
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium-pace
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1905-06 to 1910-11Wellington
1913-14Canterbury
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 15
Runs scored 354
Batting average 18.63
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 47 not out
Balls bowled 2765
Wickets 59
Bowling average 20.49
5 wickets in innings 2
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 7/50
Catches/stumpings 7/0
Source: Cricket Archive, 1 September 2014

Cricket career

Monaghan made his first-class debut for Wellington in 1905-06, when in two matches he took 14 wickets at an average of 9.71,[1] including 5 for 42 and 4 for 53 in his second match against Auckland, when he opened the bowling with Ernest Upham.[2] He took 7 for 95 when Wellington played Melbourne Cricket Club later in the season, and was selected to play for New Zealand later in the same tour, but took only one wicket, that of Warwick Armstrong. Both matches were non-first-class.[3] In March 1906 "Long Slip", the cricket writer of the Otago Witness, wrote: "Monaghan is now probably the best bowler in New Zealand, his swerve being a decided and puzzling one."[4]

His 1906-07 season consisted of two matches for Wellington against the touring MCC. In the first match he took 7 for 50 in the first innings.[5] He continued to play for Wellington until 1910-11.

He moved to Canterbury for the 1913-14 season, forming an opening-bowling partnership with George Wilson that enabled Canterbury to win all four of their Plunket Shield matches. Monaghan took 14 wickets at 17.92 in the Shield.[6] In the match against Auckland he scored 46 and 39, taking part in two batting partnerships with Wilson of 83 (for the tenth wicket) and 59 (for the ninth), as well as taking 2 for 46 and 3 for 73.[7]

The former New Zealand captain Thomas Cobcroft thought that, apart from the Australian Tom McKibbin, Monaghan was the most difficult bowler he ever faced: "just as you had made your stroke to drive him, his ball would swing and drop suddenly. A great pity for New Zealand cricket that this promising bowler went out of the game so early."[8] Monaghan was 27 when he played his last first-class match.

Clerical career and personal life

Monaghan was educated at Wellington College, where he was head prefect in 1904,[9] and Victoria University, where he was awarded the degree of Master of Arts (with "second-class honours in mental science") in 1910.[10] He was a vicar at Richmond in Christchurch,[11] in Pahiatua, and later Archdeacon of Timaru and of Rangitikei.[12][13]

He wrote four books:

  • The Wicket Gate: A Sunday School Manual (1931, reprinted 1959)
  • Christ in You: A Manual for Communicants (1932, reprinted several times)
  • A Joy for Ever: St. Mary's Parish Church, Timaru (1945)
  • From Age to Age: The Story of the Church of England in the Diocese of Wellington, 1858–1958 (1957)[14]

He and his wife Jessie had five children.[15] Their sons David, also a cricketer,[16] and Gerald died on active service in World War Two.[17][18]

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References
  1. Harold Monaghan bowling by season
  2. Wellington v Auckland 1905-06
  3. "Melbourne Cricket Club in New Zealand 1905-06". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  4. "Notes by Long Slip". Otago Witness: 62. 7 March 1906.
  5. Wellington v MCC 1906-07
  6. Plunket Shield bowling 1913-14
  7. Canterbury v Auckland 1913-14
  8. New Zealand Truth, 30 September 1922, p. 7.
  9. Evening Post, 14 April 1931, p. 11.
  10. "Conferring the Degrees". Evening Post. LXXIX (152): 8. 30 June 1910. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  11. "Cricket". Free Lance. XVII (908): 19. 14 December 1917. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  12. "Men for the War". Dominion. XI (273): 6. 7 August 1918. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  13. Wisden 1960, p. 958.
  14. National Library of New Zealand catalogue
  15. In memory of Sheila Mary Monaghan Retrieved 1 September 2014.
  16. David Monaghan at CricketArchive
  17. Monaghan, David Wyatt Retrieved 1 September 2014.
  18. Cenotaph record, Gerald Cawte Monaghan Retrieved 1 September 2014.
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