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Robert Hewat

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Robert Hewat
Personal information
Born(1863-10-18)18 October 1863
Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand
Died17 November 1953(1953-11-17) (aged 90)
Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand
RelationsDavid Hewat (brother)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1889/90Otago
Only FC14 February 1890 Otago v New South Wales
Source: CricketArchive, 28 February 2024

Robert Hewat (18 October 1863 – 17 November 1953) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played a single first-class match for Otago during the 1889–90 season.[1]

Hewat was born in Oamaru in Otago in 1863 and was educated at Oamaru High School. He worked as an accountant.[2] He was part of an Otago team of 22 that played against the touring Australians at Carisbrook in Dunedin in November 1886,[3] before playing his only first-class match against a touring New South Wales team in February 1890. He recorded a pair and took one wicket during the match.[4]

Hewat also played for North Otago between 1895 and 1904. In the 1900-01 North Otago Cricket Association season, while playing for Oamaru A, he led the batting and bowling averages and aggregates, with 187 runs at an average of 23.37 and 48 wickets at an average of 2.9.[5]

Hewat married Alice Mary Colwell Little in Dunedin in December 1892.[6] He died in Oamaru in 1953 at the age of 90.[1] Two of his brothers, Thomas and David Hewat, played cricket for Oamaru, with David going on to make four first-class appearances for Wellington during the 1880s.[7][8]

References

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  1. ^ a b Robert Hewat, CricInfo. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  2. ^ McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 67. 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 5 June 2023.)
  3. ^ Robert Hewat, CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. (subscription required)
  4. ^ "Otago v NSW 1889-90". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  5. ^ "North Otago Cricket Association". North Otago Times: 4. 19 September 1901.
  6. ^ "Marriages". Evening Star: 2. 31 December 1892.
  7. ^ David Hewat, CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. (subscription required)
  8. ^ Thomas Hewat, CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. (subscription required)