Scott Sale
{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Scott Sale
| image = File:Vernon Scott Sale NZH 13 12 1937.gif
| caption = Scott Sale in 1937
| country = New Zealand
| fullname = Vernon Scott Sale
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|6|13|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1991|1|4|1915|6|13}}
| death_place = Auckland, New Zealand
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm medium
| family = Ned Sale (father)
| club1 = Auckland
| year1 = {{nowrap|1934/35–1939/40}}
| columns = 1
| column1 = First-class
| matches1 = 11
| runs1 = 531
| bat avg1 = 33.18
| 100s/50s1 = 1/2
| top score1 = 106
| deliveries1 = 64
| wickets1 = 1
| bowl avg1 = 30.00
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 1/2
| catches/stumpings1= 4/0
| date = 19 January 2015
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/22/22805/22805.html CricketArchive
}}
Vernon Scott Sale (13 June 1915 – 4 January 1991) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Auckland from 1934 to 1940.
Life and career
Scott Sale was born in Auckland. When he was three years old, his father, the New Zealand cricketer Ned Sale, died in the influenza epidemic of 1918.New Zealand Herald, 18 November 1918, p. 1.
Sale was educated at Takapuna Grammar School. Aged 17 and while still at school, he made his first century in senior Auckland cricket in November 1932.{{cite journal |title=The First Century |journal=Star |date=7 November 1932 |page=11 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19321107.2.156}} In the corresponding round two years later he scored 220 in just under four hours.{{cite journal |title=Cricket Surprises |journal=Auckland Star |date=5 November 1934 |page=14 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19341105.2.144}}
Sale made his first-class debut in the 1934–35 season. In his second match he came to the crease with Auckland at 252 for 7 in reply to Otago's 278; he made 65 and Auckland totalled 450.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/15/15274.html| title = Otago v Auckland 1934–35| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 19 January 2015}} He was selected for North Island in the match against South Island at the end of the season and made 16 and 43.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/15/15294.html| title = North Island v South Island 1934-35| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 19 January 2015}} However, he appeared in only two first-class matches in the next three seasons.{{cite web |title=First-Class Matches played by Vernon Sale |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/22/22805/First-Class_Matches.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=15 January 2024}}
After serving as twelfth man in the first match of the 1938–39 Plunket Shield, Sale returned to the Auckland team for the second and third matches. Auckland won both matches, and the Shield. In the first match he made 106 (batting at number eight) and 43 not out against Otago.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16867.html| title = Otago v Auckland 1938-39| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 19 January 2015}} The "diminutive Aucklander" scored his century in 115 minutes of "confident and beautifully timed stroke play".New Zealand Herald, 4 January 1939, p. 11. Later that year, on Christmas Day, during the match against Auckland he made 97, the highest score in the match, "a masterly innings lasting 135 minutes" with "powerful off and cover drives, and brilliant hook and pull shots".Auckland Star, 26 December 1939, p. 11.
After the 1939–40 season, when Auckland won the Plunket Shield and Sale was singled out in The Cricketer as a batsman of "considerable promise","The Plunket Shield", The Cricketer, Spring Annual 1940, pp. 64–66. World War II curtailed cricket in New Zealand, and Sale played no more first-class cricket. He umpired two first-class matches in 1947-48 and 1948–49.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/22/22805/Umpire_in_First-Class_Matches.html| title = Vernon Sale umpiring in first-class matches| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 19 January 2015}}
He was also a football player. He married Rona Dickey in December 1940.New Zealand Herald, 13 December 1940, p. 13. He worked in banking.[http://www.nzlii.org/nz/other/nz_gazette/1979/28/46.pdf New Zealand Gazette], No. 28, 1979, p. 1064.
References
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External links
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Category:People educated at Takapuna Grammar School
Category:New Zealand cricketers