Kinder Tucker
Kinder Houghton Tucker (25 August 1875 – 24 November 1939) was a cricketer and administrator for Wellington. He played four times for New Zealand in the days before New Zealand played Test cricket.
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| Full name | Kinder Houghton Tucker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 August 1875 Nelson, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 24 November 1939 (aged 64) Wellington, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm leg-spin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Spencer Tucker (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1895-96 to 1919-20 | Wellington | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricket Archive, 26 January 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born in Nelson, New Zealand, he played 40 first-class cricket matches from 1896 to 1920 and, following his retirement, was the long-serving selector for Wellington.[1] He was the first player to score 10,000 runs in senior club and representative cricket in New Zealand.[2] He was the brother of Spencer Tucker and William Tucker.
Tucker died in Wellington, New Zealand, where he worked as an engraver. He was survived by his wife and their daughter.[3]
Sources
- Whitehorn, Zane "George Orr", The Cricket Statistician, Autumn 2004, No. 127. Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians: Nottingham.
gollark: A good video could be made on this but it might be better with an outside perspective.
gollark: Anyway, to summarise the rest of it, as I'm sure you've seen, eventually the reshuffling thing began actually happening in earnest, and today another thing happened (I forgot what), various people left, more of them joined new esolangs without leaving, and palaiologos pushed ahead with stricter rule updates in a rather authoritarian way.
gollark: Yes.
gollark: Anyway, at some point palaiologos seems to have decided that the server needed a substantial overhaul.(For video purposes you should of course find screenshots of all this stuff; I think much of it was in staff chat though)
gollark: The only person to actually *leave* due to the initial thing was cyan, who remains on the other esolangs.
References
- Whitehorn, p. 20.
- "Tucker's great record". Evening Post: 15. 24 March 1923.
- "Mr. K. H. Tucker". Evening Post. CXXVIII (126). 24 November 1939. p. 9.
External links
- Kinder Tucker at CricketArchive (subscription required)
- Kinder Tucker at ESPNcricinfo
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