Ernest Currie
{{short description|Australian rugby union player}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=April 2011}}
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| birth_place = Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
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| death_place= Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
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Ernest William Currie (9 April 1873 – 23 October 1932) was a New Zealand-born rugby union international for Australia and a first-class cricketer.
Cricket career
Currie, who was born at Dunedin, represented Otago in six first-class cricket matches during the 1894–95 and 1893–94 New Zealand cricket seasons, as a wicket-keeper.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/15/15920/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Ernest Currie|publisher=CricketArchive}} He was regarded as one of New Zealand's best wicket-keepers of his time, "a lightning hand behind the sticks".{{cite journal|title=The Doyen of N.Z. Wicketkeepers|journal=Dominion|date=11 October 1913|page= 12|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19131011.2.97.2|accessdate=14 July 2018}}
After moving to Australia, he appeared in one further first-class match for Queensland, against New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1899.
Rugby union career
Currie, a scrum-half, claimed one international rugby cap for Australia. He played against Great Britain, at Brisbane, on 22 July 1899, the second ever Test match played by an Australian national side. His performance in that match was noted as "excellent" by the press.{{cite news|title=INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL.|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31369426|accessdate=8 August 2010|newspaper=Queanbeyan Age|date=26 July 1899|page=2}}
Personal life
Currie worked as a clerk.McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. {{isbn|978 1 905138 98 2}} ([https://archive.acscricket.com/cricketers_series/new_zealand_cricketers_1863-64_2010/index.html Available online] at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) He and his wife Annie had a son and two daughters. He died at Randwick in 1932 aged 59.{{cite journal |title=Deaths |journal=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=24 October 1932 |page= 8 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16924930 |accessdate=14 July 2018}}
References
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External links
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Category:Australian cricketers
Category:New Zealand cricketers
Category:Queensland cricketers
Category:Australian rugby union players
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