Arthur Alloo
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Arthur Alloo
| image = File:Arthur Alloo 1925-26.jpg
| imagesize = 180px
| caption = Alloo in 1925/26
| country = New Zealand
| fullname = Arthur William Alloo
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1892|1|9|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1950|9|16|1892|1|9}}
| death_place = Nelson, New Zealand
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm off-spin
| family = Albert Alloo (brother)
Cecil Alloo (brother)
| club1 = Otago
| year1 = {{nowrap|1913/14–1930/31}}
| columns = 1
| column1 = First-class
| matches1 = 51
| runs1 = 2,043
| bat avg1 = 23.21
| 100s/50s1 = 2/11
| top score1 = 101
| deliveries1 = 8,454
| wickets1 = 131
| bowl avg1 = 27.59
| fivefor1 = 10
| tenfor1 = 3
| best bowling1 = 6/20
| catches/stumpings1= 24/–
| date = 30 April
| year = 2014
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/16/16915/16915.html CricketArchive
}}
Arthur William Alloo (9 January 1892 – 16 September 1950) played first-class cricket in New Zealand from 1913 to 1931. He worked as a schoolteacher.
Cricket career
=Early career=
Alloo made his first-class debut as an opening batsman for Otago in the 1913–14 season.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9193.html Canterbury v Otago 1913-14] In his second match he made 101 against Wellington in three hours out of a team total of 236.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9201.html Otago v Wellington 1913-14]
He bowled little until 1918–19, when in a match against Southland he and Henry Holderness bowled unchanged throughout the match, Alloo taking 5 for 27 and 5 for 23.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9524.html Southland v Otago 1918-19] In his next match, in 1919–20, also against Southland, he took 6 for 20 in the second innings.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9727.html Otago v Southland 1919-20] A few days later, against Wellington, he scored 35 and 26 batting at number four, and bowled unchanged throughout the match, taking 6 for 63 and 4 for 96.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9730.html Otago v Wellington 1919-20] According to Dick Brittenden, Alloo "dropped the ball on a length at slow-medium pace, and turned it from off".R.T. Brittenden, Great Days in New Zealand Cricket, A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, 1958, p. 48.
=Playing for New Zealand=
In 1923–24 he was the leading wicket-taker in the Plunket Shield, with 24 wickets at an average of 25.25.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/2/Plunket_Shield_1923-24/Bowling_by_Average.html Bowling in Plunket Shield 1923-24] In the final match against Wellington at Carisbrook, 1905 runs were scored over five days – which is still the seventh-highest aggregate in the history of first-class cricket.[http://www.blackcaps.co.nz/uploadGallery/NZC_museum/NZCM-Sum-Aut-10-11.pdf New Zealand Cricket Museum Summer-Autumn 2010-11 newsletter] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130209173546/http://www.blackcaps.co.nz/uploadGallery/NZC_museum/NZCM-Sum-Aut-10-11.pdf |date=2013-02-09 }} Retrieved 20 April 2014. Wellington batted first and made 560 (Alloo 6 for 136), Otago replied with 385, Wellington made 465 in their second innings (Alloo 6 for 141), and Otago, needing 641 to win, were dismissed for 495.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/11/11042.html Otago v Wellington 1923-24] He played a match for New Zealand against the touring New South Wales team at the end of the season.
Alloo also played for New Zealand in 1924–25, this time two matches against Victoria. He toured Australia with the New Zealand team in 1925–26, playing all four matches against the state sides, but with little success. In all, in seven matches for New Zealand against Australian state teams he made 177 runs at 19.66,[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/16/16915/f_Batting_by_Team.html Arthur Alloo batting for each team] and took six wickets at 55.00.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/16/16915/f_Bowling_by_Team.html Arthur Alloo bowling for each team]
=Later career=
He captained Otago from 1927–28 until his final matches in 1930–31, usually batting at seven or eight. He scored his second first-class century in 1928–29, batting at number eight against Wellington.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/12/12940.html Wellington v Otago 1928-29]
Personal life
Arthur Alloo attended Otago Boys' High School and the University of Otago.{{cite journal |title=Death at Nelson: Well-known Otago sportsman |journal=Otago Daily Times |date=18 September 1950 |page=6 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19500918.2.85}} Like him, his brothers Albert and Cecil also played for Otago. The brothers were the grandsons of John Alloo, a Chinese-born businessman on the Ballarat goldfields, and his wife, née Margaret Peacock, who had come out from Scotland. John and Margaret moved to the Otago goldfields in 1868, where he was employed by the Otago Police Force as a constable-interpreter.{{cite web |last1=Alloo |first1=Jenny |title=Dispersing Obscurity: The Alloo Family from Australia to New Zealand from 1868 |url=http://www.stevenyoung.co.nz/chinesevoice/ChinConf/S5.html#5.1%20Dispersing%20Obscurity:%20The%20Alloo%20Family%20From%20Australia%20to%20New%20Zealand%20from%201868 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040607060219/http://www.stevenyoung.co.nz/chinesevoice/ChinConf/S5.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 June 2004 |accessdate=12 July 2019 }}
Arthur Alloo was a schoolteacher. He married another teacher, Eileen Jessie Williams, in Dunedin in December 1930.{{cite journal |title=Wedding |journal=Timaru Herald |date=31 December 1930 |page=3 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THD19301231.2.9}} He was appointed headmaster of the North-East Harbour School in Dunedin in 1932{{cite journal |title=North-East Harbour notes |journal=Otago Daily Times |date=30 January 1932 |page=2 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19320130.2.4}} and in the late 1930s he became the headmaster of Auckland Point School in the Nelson area, and later the headmaster of Nelson Central School.{{cite journal |title=Sudden death on golf links of Nelson schoolmaster |journal=Gisborne Herald |date=18 September 1950 |page=6 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19500918.2.81}}{{cite journal |title=Outstanding batsman |journal=Otago Daily Times |date=2 January 1947 |page=2 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19470102.2.16}}
As well as cricket he played soccer, fives, billiards, bowls and golf. He died suddenly while playing golf in Nelson. He was 58. His wife predeceased him.
References
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External links
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