Percy Pratt

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{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Percy Pratt

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| fullname = Percy Mackenzie Pratt

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1874|1|12|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Bareilly, British India

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1961|7|20|1874|1|12|df=yes}}

| death_place = Denmark, Western Australia

| batting =

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| family =

| club1 = Taranaki

| year1 = 1894–95 to 1897–98

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 5

| runs1 = 227

| bat avg1 = 32.42

| 100s/50s1 = 0/1

| top score1 = 85

| deliveries1 = 138

| wickets1 = 2

| bowl avg1 = 44.50

| fivefor1 = 0

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 2/26

| catches/stumpings1= 0/0

| date = 8 January 2017

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/38216.html Cricinfo

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Percy Mackenzie Pratt (12 January 1874 – 20 July 1961) was a cricketer who played five matches of first-class cricket for Taranaki from 1895 to 1898.

Pratt's highest score was 85, in Taranaki's only first-class victory, against Hawke's Bay in March 1897. He and William Crawshaw (106) added 114 for the third wicket.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/4/4718.html| title = Taranaki v Hawke's Bay 1896-97| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 8 January 2017}} He scored his runs "very rapidly" and hit 13 fours.{{cite news | work=Hawera & Normanby Star | date=18 March 1897 | page=2 | title= Victory for the Local Men| url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HNS18970318.2.18| volume=XXXIII | issue=3499}}

Pratt continued to represent the region after Taranaki lost first-class status after the 1897–98 season. Against the Australians in 1909–10 he top-scored for Taranaki with 31 in a match that ended in a close draw.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/135/135306.html| title = Taranaki v Australians 1909-10| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 8 January 2017}} Four years later he opened for South Taranaki against the Australians and scored 89; the next-highest Taranaki scorer made 33.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9217.html | title = South Taranaki v Australians 1913-14| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 8 January 2017}} He represented South Taranaki in the Hawke Cup from 1911 to 1922.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/22/22691/Hawke_Cup_Matches.html | title = Hawke Cup matches played by Percy Pratt| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 8 January 2017}}

Pratt ran a cabinet-making, upholstering and undertaking business in Hāwera.{{cite news | work=Hawera & Normanby Star | date=3 February 1912 | page=7 | title= Late advertisements| url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HNS19120203.2.53.3| volume=LXII}} He married Beatrice Annie King in Hawera in February 1902.{{cite journal |title=Marriages |journal=Hawera & Normanby Star |date=8 February 1902 |page=2 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HNS19020208.2.6}} He and his family went to live in Norfolk Island in 1928.{{cite journal |title=Loss to Taranaki Cricket |journal=Taranaki Daily News |date=7 November 1928 |page=6 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19281107.2.28}} Later they moved to Western Australia, where they had a property beside the Hay River near Denmark.{{cite journal |title=S.D.A. Youth Camp |journal=The Denmark Post |date=15 January 1953 |page=1 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/259299673}}