Arthur William Alloo (9 January 1892 – 16 September 1950) played

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in New Zealand from 1913 to 1931. He worked as a schoolteacher.

Cricket career

Early career

Alloo made his first-class debut as an opening batsman for

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in the 1913–14 season. In his second match he made 101 against

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in three hours out of a team total of 236. He bowled little until 1918–19, when in a match against Southland he and

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, Alloo "dropped the ball on a length at slow-medium pace, and turned it from off".

Playing for New Zealand

In 1923–24 he was the leading wicket-taker in the

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, with 24 wickets at an average of 25.25. In the final match against

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, 1905 runs were scored over five days – which is still the seventh-highest aggregate in the history of first-class cricket. Wellington batted first and made 560 (Alloo 6 for 136), Otago replied with 385, Wellington made 465 in their second innings (Alloo 6 for 141), and Otago, needing 641 to win, were dismissed for 495. He played a match for

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against the touring New South Wales team at the end of the season. Alloo also played for New Zealand in 1924–25, this time two matches against

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. He toured Australia with the New Zealand team in 1925–26, playing all four matches against the state sides, but with little success. In all, in seven matches for New Zealand against Australian state teams he made 177 runs at 19.66, and took six wickets at 55.00.

Later career

He captained Otago from 1927–28 until his final matches in 1930–31, usually batting at seven or eight. He scored his second first-class century in 1928–29, batting at number eight against Wellington.

Personal life

Arthur Alloo attended

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and the

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. Like him, his brothers

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and

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also played for Otago. The brothers were the grandsons of John Alloo, a Chinese-born businessman on the

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goldfields, and his wife, née Margaret Peacock, who had come out from Scotland. John and Margaret moved to the Otago goldfields in 1868, where he was employed by the Otago Police Force as a constable-interpreter. Arthur Alloo was a schoolteacher. He married another teacher, Eileen Jessie Williams, in Dunedin in December 1930. He was appointed headmaster of the North-East Harbour School in Dunedin in 1932 and in the late 1930s he became the headmaster of Auckland Point School in the

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area, and later the headmaster of Nelson Central School. As well as cricket he played soccer, fives, billiards, bowls and golf. He died suddenly while playing golf in Nelson. He was 58. His wife predeceased him.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alloo, Arthur 1892 births 1950 deaths People educated at Otago Boys' High School University of Otago alumni New Zealand cricketers Pre-1930 New Zealand representative cricketers Otago cricketers Australian emigrants to New Zealand New Zealand schoolteachers New Zealand sportspeople of Chinese descent South Island cricketers