Bernard McCarthy
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Bernard McCarthy
| image = File:Bernard McCarthy 1935.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = McCarthy in 1935
| country = New Zealand
| fullname =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1874|7|24|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Charleston, Nelson Province, New Zealand
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1948|7|7|1874|7|24}}
| death_place = Hāwera, New Zealand
| batting = Left-handed
| bowling = Right-arm off-spin
| family =
| club1 = Taranaki
| year1 = {{nowrap|1894/95–1897/98}}
| columns = 1
| column1 = First-class
| matches1 = 6
| runs1 = 139
| bat avg1 = 17.37
| 100s/50s1 = 0/1
| top score1 = 52
| deliveries1 = 919
| wickets1 = 20
| bowl avg1 = 22.90
| fivefor1 = 1
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 5/109
| catches/stumpings1= 2/–
| date = 1 June
| year = 2015
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/America/content/player/37847.html ESPNCricinfo
}}
Bernard McCarthy (24 July 1874 – 7 July 1948) was a New Zealand cricketer, lawyer and papal knight.
Life and work
After attending St. Patrick's College, Wellington, McCarthy moved to Hāwera, where he qualified as a lawyer and in 1903 founded the law firm that is now known as Welsh McCarthy. McCarthy Street in Hāwera is named after him.{{cite news| work=Taranaki Daily News| accessdate=1 June 2015| title=Word on the street – McCarthy Street, Hawera|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/lifestyle/67980314/word-on-the-street--mccarthy-street-hawera|date=2 May 2015}} He became president of the St. Patrick's College Old Boys' Association; for his work for the Old Boys and for organising the school's golden jubilee celebrations in 1935 he was awarded the papal knighthood of St Gregory the Great.Evening Post, 26 April 1935, p. 5.
Cricket career
McCarthy played four matches for Taranaki during its brief period as a first-class cricket team. In Taranaki's only first-class victory, against Hawke's Bay in 1896–97, he took 3 for 42 and 4 for 46 with his off-spin.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/4/4718.html| title = Taranaki v Hawke's Bay 1896-97| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 1 June 2015}} Hawke's Bay reversed the result in their next encounter in 1897–98, although McCarthy took his best figures of 5 for 109 and top-scored in each innings with 27 and 52, his best first-class score.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/4/4917.html| title = Hawke's Bay v Taranaki 1897-98| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 1 June 2015}} He batted left-handed.{{cite news | work=Taranaki Daily News| date=17 January 1920| page=7 | title= Cricket| url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19200117.2.69}}
Although Taranaki played no first-class matches after 1898, and McCarthy's cricket for four years was limited to minor matches, he was selected to play for New Zealand in two matches against Lord Hawke's XI in 1902–03. He took three wickets, all of opening batsmen.Don Neely & Richard Payne, Men in White: The History of New Zealand International Cricket, 1894–1985, Moa, Auckland, 1986, pp. 43-44.
In the second match of the first season of the Hawke Cup in 1910–11, McCarthy took 6 for 12 and 4 for 29 as South Taranaki beat North Taranaki.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/123/123393.html| title = South Taranaki v North Taranaki 1910-11| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 1 June 2015}} He played his last Hawke Cup game in 1922–23.
References
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External links
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Category:New Zealand cricketers
Category:Pre-1930 New Zealand representative cricketers
Category:Knights of St. Gregory the Great
Category:20th-century New Zealand lawyers
Category:People educated at St Patrick's College, Wellington