Ernest Horspool
{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Ernest Horspool
| image = Ernie Horspool of Auckland.png
| country =
| fullname =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1891|8|23|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Dargaville, New Zealand
| death_date = {{death date and age|1957|6|21|1891|8|23|df=yes}}
| death_place = Auckland, New Zealand
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| role =
| club1 = Auckland
| year1 = {{nowrap|1909/10–1928/29}}
| columns = 1
| column1 = First-class
| matches1 = 39
| runs1 = 1,686
| bat avg1 = 24.43
| 100s/50s1 = 2/7
| top score1 = 143
| deliveries1 = 723
| wickets1 = 9
| bowl avg1 = 50.44
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 2/15
| catches/stumpings1= 27/–
| date = 17 October
| year = 2021
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37437.html Cricinfo
}}
Ernest Horspool (23 August 1891 – 21 June 1957) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Auckland between 1909 and 1929, and represented New Zealand in the period before New Zealand played Test cricket.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37437.html |title=Ernest Horspool |accessdate=12 June 2016 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}
Cricket career
Horspool was a middle-order or opening batsman. He made his first first-class century in 1913-14 in Auckland's victory over Wellington, scoring 54 and 113 in a match in which nobody else reached 50.{{cite web |title=Wellington v Auckland 1913-14 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9211.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=17 October 2021}} He played in the first of the two matches New Zealand played against the touring Australians later that season but was unsuccessful, and was one of seven in the New Zealand team who lost their places for the second match.Don Neely & Richard Payne, Men in White: The History of New Zealand International Cricket, 1894–1985, Moa, Auckland, 1986, pp. 57–59.
He made his second century against the touring Victorian team 11 years later in 1924-25, when he scored 143 in three hours and added 212 for the second wicket with Nessie Snedden.{{cite web |title=Auckland v Victoria 1924-25 |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1920S/1924-25/VIC_IN_NZ/VIC_AUCK_13-16MAR1925.html |website=Cricinfo |access-date=17 October 2021}} In a long career in senior club cricket for Grafton in Auckland he scored more than 13,000 runs.{{cite journal |title=Horspool's Fine Record |journal=Otago Daily Times |date=31 October 1929 |page=4 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19291031.2.16.1}}
Personal life
The eighth son of a large family, Horspool married Isabel Jessie Smith in Auckland in January 1920.{{cite journal |title=Women's World |journal=Auckland Star |date=16 February 1920 |page=7 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19200216.2.80}} He worked in Auckland as a dairyman.{{cite journal |title=Milk Supply Case |journal=New Zealand Herald |date=18 June 1929 |page=12 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19290618.2.131}} He died aged 65 in June 1957, survived by his wife and their son and daughter.{{cite journal |title=Mr. E. Horspool |journal=Press |date=24 June 1957 |page=12 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19570624.2.130}}
References
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External links
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Category:New Zealand cricketers
Category:Pre-1930 New Zealand representative cricketers