Mick Randall
 Randall during World War II | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Clement Lindsay William Randall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 August 1913 Napier, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 23 December 2007 (aged 94) Nelson, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Mick | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium pace | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1948/49–1950/51 | Wellington | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 17 June 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Clement Lindsay William "Mick" Randall (8 August 1913 – 23 December 2007) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played in ten first-class matches for Wellington from 1948 to 1951.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Born in Napier, Randall attended Wellington Technical College and became an accountant. During World War II he served as a captain with the New Zealand Army in the South Pacific.[2]
Randall was an accurate right-arm medium-pace bowler who was 35 years old when he played his first first-class match in December 1948. In Wellington's victory over Otago in the Plunket Shield in December 1949 he took three wickets in each innings, finishing with match figures of 41–14–62–6.[3] A year later, in his last season, he had match figures of 19.3–2–36–5 against Central Districts.[4]
Randall later served as president of the Wellington Cricket Association.[5] He worked in Wellington, where he became a company director.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Clement Randall". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ "Captain C. L. Randall". Online Cenotaph. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
- ^ "Wellington v Otago 1949-50". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
- ^ "Wellington v Central Districts 1950-51". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
- ^ Tony McCarron, New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64 – 2010, ACS, Cardiff, 2010, p. 110.
- ^ "New Zealand, Electoral Rolls 1960 Wellington Central". Ancestry.com.au. Retrieved 17 June 2023.