Allen Lissette
{{Short description|New Zealand cricketer}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Allen Lissette
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MBE|size=100%}}
| image = File:A Lissette 1963.jpg
| caption = Lissette in 1963
| fullname = Allen Fisher Lissette
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|11|06|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Morrinsville, New Zealand
| death_place = Hamilton, New Zealand
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|01|24|1919|11|06|df=yes}}
| international = true
| internationalspan = 1956
| country = New Zealand
| testdebutagainst = West Indies
| testdebutdate = 3 February
| testdebutyear = 1956
| testcap = 77
| lasttestdate = 18 February
| lasttestagainst = West Indies
| lasttestyear = 1956
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Slow left-arm orthodox
| columns = 2
| column1 = Test
| matches1 = 2
| runs1 = 2
| bat avg1 = 1.00
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 1*
| deliveries1 = 288
| wickets1 = 3
| bowl avg1 = 41.33
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 2/73
| catches/stumpings1= 1/–
| column2 = First-class
| matches2 = 38
| runs2 = 476
| bat avg2 = 10.81
| 100s/50s2 = 0/0
| top score2 = 27*
| deliveries2 = 8,597
| wickets2 = 116
| bowl avg2 = 25.89
| fivefor2 = 5
| tenfor2 = 1
| best bowling2 = 7/45
| catches/stumpings2= 20/–
| date = 1 April
| year = 2017
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/37608.html Cricinfo
}}
Allen Fisher Lissette {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MBE|size=85%}} (6 November 1919 – 24 January 1973) was a New Zealand cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1956.
Cricket career
A left-arm orthodox spinner, Lissette played for Waikato in the Hawke Cup from 1938 to 1970.{{cite web|title=Miscellaneous Matches played by Allen Lissette |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Players/1/1038/Miscellaneous_Matches.html|website=CricketArchive|accessdate=29 May 2016}} He was 35 when he made his first-class debut in 1954–55 for Auckland.
After taking 7 for 50 in Auckland's victory over Otago in the Plunket Shield in January 1956 and four wickets against the touring West Indians in his next match, Lissette was selected for the first two Tests of the series against West Indies. He took three wickets, but New Zealand lost both matches by an innings, and he was not selected again.Don Neely & Richard Payne, Men in White: The History of New Zealand International Cricket, 1894–1985, Moa, Auckland, 1986, pp. 253–55.
When the Northern Districts team was formed for the 1956–57 season he joined them and played for them until 1962–63, the season they won their first Plunket Shield. He captained Northern Districts in the 1957–58 season, and took five wickets in their first victory, over Central Districts that season.{{cite web|title=Northern Districts v Central Districts 1957–58 |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/22/22811.html|website=CricketArchive|accessdate=29 May 2016}} His best innings and match figures in first-class cricket came in the match against Otago in 1959–60, when he took 7 for 45 and 5 for 64; Otago nevertheless won by 72 runs.{{cite web|title=Otago v Northern Districts 1959–60 |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23897.html|website=CricketArchive|accessdate=29 May 2016}}
Later life
Lissette was a squadron leader in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. He served in Europe in World War II as a fighter pilot with No. 126 Squadron, Royal Air Force. He was shot down while on operations in a Spitfire over Albania in January 1943 and captured,{{cite journal |title=Prisoner of War |journal=Waikato Times |date=3 February 1944 |page=4 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19440203.2.28}} remaining a prisoner until the end of the war.{{cite journal |title=Airmen Released |journal=Auckland Star |date=4 June 1945 |page=4 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19450604.2.46}} In the 1966 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Member of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire.{{London Gazette |issue=44006 |date=11 June 1966 |page=6572 |supp=3}}
Lissette suffered a heart attack during a club game in October 1972 and died the following January, aged 53.Wisden 1974, p. 1076.
References
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External links
- {{cricinfo|id=37608}}
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