John Morris (New Zealand cricketer)
{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = John Morris
| image =
| country =
| fullname = John Bentham Morris
| birth_date = {{birth date|1933|1|9|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Paddington, London, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1970|1|9|1933|1|9|df=yes}}
| death_place = Auckland, New Zealand
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| role =
| club1 = Auckland
| year1 = {{nowrap|1951/52–1956/57}}
| columns = 1
| column1 = First-class
| matches1 = 23
| runs1 = 1,021
| bat avg1 = 25.52
| 100s/50s1 = 2/3
| top score1 = 103
| deliveries1 = 48
| wickets1 = 1
| bowl avg1 = 28.00
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 1/7
| catches/stumpings1 = 11/–
| date = 29 December
| year = 2020
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37958.html ESPNcricinfo
}}
John Bentham Morris (9 January 1933 – 9 January 1970) was a New Zealand cricketer and orthopaedic surgeon.
Life and career
Morris was born in London in January 1933, the son of an orthopaedic surgeon, and his family moved to New Zealand when he was a boy. He was educated at King's College, Auckland, and the University of Otago, where he graduated in medicine in 1956.{{cite web |title=Morris, John Bentham (1932–1970) |url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:378139/one?qu=%22rcs%3A+E005956%22&rt=false%7C%7C%7CIDENTIFIER%7C%7C%7CResource+Identifier |website=Plarr's Lives of the Fellows |access-date=29 December 2020}} He furthered his orthopaedic training in the UK and the US before returning to New Zealand and taking up the position of orthopaedic surgeon at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland. He and his Middlemore Hospital colleague Ross Nicholson (1922–2013) pioneered hip replacement surgery in New Zealand.{{cite web|title=Oliver Ross Nicholson|url=https://www.surgeons.org/about-racs/about-the-college-of-surgeons/in-memoriam/obituaries/oliver-ross-nicholson|website=RACS|access-date=25 November 2024}} He died of illness in January 1970, survived by his wife and their three children.
Morris played 23 first-class cricket matches for Auckland between 1951 and 1957.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37958.html |title=John Morris |access-date=19 June 2016 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}} A right-handed middle-order batsman, described as "an exciting stylist",{{cite journal |title=Mr. J. B. Morris |journal=Press |date=12 January 1970 |page=8 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19700112.2.67}} he scored 45 and 103 in Auckland's victory over Wellington in the 1953–54 Plunket Shield.{{cite web |title=Auckland v Wellington 1953–54 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/20/20958.html|website=CricketArchive |access-date=29 December 2020}} His other first-class century was 101 not out in Auckland's victory over Central Districts in the 1952–53 Plunket Shield.{{cite web |title=Auckland v Central Districts 1952–53 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/20/20086.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=29 December 2020}} He was Auckland's leading scorer in the 1954–55 Plunket Shield, with 280 runs at an average of 35.00.{{cite web |title=Auckland Batting 1954–55 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/3/Plunket_Shield_1954-55/Auckland_Batting.html|website=CricketArchive |access-date=29 December 2020}} He played for North Island in a trial match before the Test series against England in 1954–55 and scored 34, but was not selected for the Test team.{{cite web |title=South Island v North Island 1954–55 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/21/21445.html|website=CricketArchive |access-date=29 December 2020}}
References
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External links
- {{ESPNcricinfo|id=37958}}
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