Harold Lusk
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| Full name | Harold Butler Lusk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
8 June 1877 Auckland, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died |
13 February 1961 (aged 83) Auckland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Hugh Lusk (cousin) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1899-1900 to 1905-06, 1918-19 to 1920-21 | Auckland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1906-07 to 1912-13 | Canterbury | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1917-18 | Wellington | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricket Archive, 11 May 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harold Butler Lusk (8 June 1877 – 13 February 1961) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1899 to 1921.
Lusk made his first-class debut as a batsman for Auckland in the 1899-1900 season, but it was not until his 16th match, in 1907-08, after he had transferred to Canterbury, that he scored his first fifty, 66 against Auckland in the first-ever match in the Plunket Shield.[1] In 1909-10 he scored his first century, 102 out of a team total of 241, opening against Otago,[2] and was selected to open for New Zealand in the two matches against Australia; he scored 83 runs in four innings. The next season he scored 151 not out against Auckland, adding 148 in an unbroken fifth-wicket stand with Dan Reese that took Canterbury to their first victory in the Plunket Shield.[3] It was also Canterbury's first Plunket Shield century. Lusk later returned to play for Auckland, appearing for the last time in the 1920-21 season, when he was 43, and made 43 (top score) and 31.[4]
Lusk was the New Zealand Amateur Golf Champion in 1910.[5] He was a schoolmaster at Christ's College, Christchurch, who taught at Rugby School in England on a teacher exchange in 1913.[6] When he returned to Christ's College, he coached Tom Lowry.[7]
References
- ↑ Canterbury v Auckland 1907-08
- ↑ Canterbury v Otago 1909-10
- ↑ Canterbury v Auckland 1910-11
- ↑ Wellington v Auckland 1920-21
- ↑ New Zealand Amateur Champions
- ↑ Greg Ryan, "Where the Game Was Played by Decent Chaps", PhD thesis, University of Canterbury, 1996, pp. 264-65.
- ↑ Bill Francis, Tom Lowry: Leader in a Thousand, Trio, Wellington, 2010, p. 34.