This is a list of cricketers who played

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adju ...

for the Nelson cricket team in New Zealand. Nelson played a total of 17 first-class matches between the 1873–74 season and 1891–92, all but one of which were played against

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.McCarron, p. 4.Carman AH (1981) ''A guide to first-class matches played in New Zealand, 1863 to 1980'', p. 12. Nottingham:

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Hawke Cup The Hawke Cup is a non-first-class cricket competition for New Zealand's district associations. Apart from 1910–11, 1912–13 and 2000–01 the competition has always been on a challenge basis. To win the Hawke Cup, the challengers must beat ...

competition for minor associations from 1921–22. Players are listed with the seasons in which they played. Some players also appeared in first-class or Hawke Cup matches for other sides.

A

* Joseph Adcock * John Arnold * William Arnold * James Askew * Frederick Atkinson

B

* Louis Balmain * David Barnett * Andrew Bennett * Alfred Bigg-Wither * James Bigg-Wither * Edward Boddington * Henry Boddington * Samuel Bolton * Robertson Booth * Charles Broad * Edward Broad * David Burns

C

* Richard Canney * Alfred Coles * John Collins * Frank Cooke *

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* Henry Cross

D

* Henry Dencker * William Denshire

E

* Jim Eden * Thomas Eden * William Eden

F

* Herman Fayen * Joseph Firth * William Justice Ford * George Fowler * Louis Fowler * Samuel Fowler

G

* Arthur Green * Alfred Greenfield * Francis Greenfield

H

* Charles Halliday * Harry Halliday * Rayner Hodder * Henry Hole * William Holmes * Joseph Humphries

K

* Herbert Kissling * Charles Knapp * Kempster Knapp * Harvey Knapp

L

* Austin Lines * William Littlejohn

M

* Robert Malcolm

N

* John Naylor

P

* Leslie Pattie * Samuel Powell

R

* George Richardson

S

* Robert Satchell * Melville Sellon * George Silcock *

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T

* Robert Tennent

W

* BH White * James Wigzell * Arthur Wix * James Wood * William Wratt

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References

Bibliography

*McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010''. Cardiff:

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