Edward Boddington

{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2013}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Edward Boddington

| image =

| caption =

| country = New Zealand

| fullname = Edward Robert Boddington

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1862|4|29|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Wakefield, New Zealand

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1897|3|4|1862|4|29|df=yes}}

| death_place = Perth, Western Australia

| batting =

| bowling =

| family = Henry Boddington (brother)

| club1 = Nelson

| year1 = {{nowrap|1881/82–1885/86}}

| club2 = Wellington

| year2 = 1887/88

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 6

| runs1 = 98

| bat avg1 = 14.00

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| top score1 = 47 not out

| deliveries1 = 41

| wickets1 = 2

| bowl avg1 = 10.50

| fivefor1 = 0

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 1/4

| catches/stumpings1 = 2/–

| date = 19 January

| year = 2018

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/srilanka/content/player/36474.html Cricinfo

}}

Edward Robert Boddington (29 April 1862 – 4 March 1897) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket in New Zealand from 1880 to 1888.

In the seven low-scoring first-class matches played at Victory Square, Nelson, Boddington hit the highest individual score, 36, for Nelson against Wellington in March 1886, when Nelson made only 101 yet won by an innings and 46 runs.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/3/3043.html| title = Nelson v Wellington 1885–86| publisher = CricketArchive}}

Boddington was educated at Nelson College from 1877 to 1878,{{cite book | chapter=Full school list of Nelson College, 1856–2005 | title=Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006 | year=2006 | edition=6th | type=CD-ROM}} and joined the Union Bank of Australia, for whom he worked in Nelson, Wellington and Dunedin before moving to the Perth branch in 1895.{{cite news | work=Nelson Evening Mail| date=15 March 1897 | page=2 | title= [untitled]| url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM18970315.2.7|accessdate=21 January 2018}} He died suddenly in Perth, three months after winning the Western Australian tennis championship.{{cite news | work=Western Mail| date=4 December 1896 | page=18 | title= Conclusion of the Tournament| url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/33132934| accessdate=21 January 2018}} He was also a prominent golfer, cyclist and athlete.{{cite news | work=Daily News| date=10 March 1897 | page=3 | title= Death of Mr. E. R. Boddington| url= http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/81330433}}