James Hume (cricketer)
James Edward Hume (1858 – 1 June 1909) was a Scottish-born cricketer. He played a single first-class match in New Zealand for Otago during the 1880–81 season.[1]
Hume was born at Glasgow in Scotland and moved to New Zealand in his youth. He was educated at Otago Boys' High School in Dunedin and later worked as a surveyor.[2]
Hume played in an Otago team of 22 against the touring Australians in January 1881 and the following month made his only first-class appearance. Playing against Canterbury he scored a single run in each innings and took two wickets, opening the bowling for the side. He died in 1909 in Malaysia.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ James Hume, CricInfo. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
- ^ McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2 (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2023-06-05.)
- ^ James Hume, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2023-12-22. (subscription required)
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