Graham Gedye
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| Full name | Sydney Graham Gedye | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 May 1929 Ōtāhuhu,Auckland,New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 10 August 2014(aged 85) Auckland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Arnold Gedye(father) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap98) | 21 February 1964 vSouth Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 22 January 1965 vPakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1956/57–1964/65 | Auckland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sydney Graham Gedye(2 May 1929 – 10 August 2014) was aNew ZealandTestcricketerwho playedfirst-class cricketforAucklandfrom 1956–57 to 1964–65. He was the 98th Test cap for New Zealand.
Cricket career
[edit]Gedye was born inAuckland,where he went to school atOtahuhu College.[1]His father,Arnold Gedye,played two first-class matches forWellingtonin the 1919–20 season.[2]
A right-handed opening batsman, Gedye made his debut for Auckland in 1956-57 and played unobtrusively for several seasons with a top score of 88[3]before coming into prominence with two centuries in the match againstCentral Districtsin 1963–64.[4]
That performance propelled him into the New ZealandTestteam for the three-match series againstSouth Africa.He made 10 and a match-saving 52 in around 70 overs in the First Test,[5]and 18 and 55 in the Third Test.[6]His 166 runs at an average of 27.66 placed him third in the New Zealanders' averages and aggregates for the series.[7]
He retained his spot in the Test team the following season after another century in a victory over Central Districts,[8]but after the First Test againstPakistan,in which he scored 26 in 160 minutes, he was dropped. When he then failed to be selected for the tours to India, Pakistan and England in 1965, he retired from first-class cricket.[5][9]
Gedye andRoger Harrisopened the batting together in several hundred games for their club in Auckland and for Auckland in thePlunket Shield.[5]Gedye also playedrugbyforAuckland.[5]
References
[edit]- ^Tony McCarron,New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64 – 2010,ACS, Cardiff, 2010, p. 55.
- ^"Arnold Gedye".CricketArchive.Retrieved15 December2023.
- ^Graham Gedye batting season by season
- ^Auckland v Central Districts 1963-64
- ^abcdWisden2015, p. 189.
- ^Wisden1965, pp. 839–42.
- ^Wisden1965, p. 821.
- ^"Central Districts v Auckland 1964-65".CricketArchive.Retrieved8 May2017.
- ^"Former Kiwi cricket rep Graham Gedye dies - Sport - NZ Herald News".Nzherald.co.nz.Retrieved15 August2014.