Henry Baker (cricketer)

Henry Stephen Baker (26 December 1904 – 7 November 1926) was an Australian-born cricketer who played a single first-class cricket match in New Zealand for Otago.[1]

Henry Baker
Personal information
Full name
Henry Stephen Baker
Born(1904-12-26)26 December 1904
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died7 November 1926(1926-11-07) (aged 21)
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1925/26Otago
Only FC25 December 1925 Otago v Canterbury
Source: CricInfo, 1 January 2022

Baker was born at Melbourne in Victoria in 1904. He played in his only known cricket match during the 1925/26 season, against Canterbury. He scored a total of two runs in the match.[2] Baker also played rugby union and was described as a "fine all-round athlete" and as a "prominent member of the Dunedin Football Club".[3]

Baker lived in the Dunedin suburb of Kensington, and worked as a factory hand and as a clerk. He died in November 1926 at the age of 21, less than 12 months after his only first-class appearance. He drowned while swimming off Tomahawk beach in Dunedin.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ Henry Baker, CricInfo. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  2. ^ Henry Baker, CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 January 2022. (subscription required)
  3. ^ a b "Bathing Fatality". Otago Daily Times (19941): 10. 8 November 1926. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  4. ^ McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 14. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2
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