Rowland Leate Holle (1859 – 3 August 1929) was an Australian-born New Zealand

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er. He played

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for

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and

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between 1883 and 1894.

Life and career

Holle was born in

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. He was employed as a cutter and manager at the

clothing factory Thompson, Shannon and Co in 1883. On his first-class debut for Wellington in December 1883, Holle took 5 for 22 and 4 for 20 – all on the first day of the match – but Wellington still lost to

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by 39 runs in a match in which 40 wickets fell for only 183 runs. In the 1893-94 season when he captained Auckland on their three-match southern tour, he played as a batsman. In the last match, going to the wicket at No. 11 with 13 runs required, he scored the winning runs to take Auckland to victory over Wellington by one wicket. The Wellington ''

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'' described the match as "the most exciting inter-provincial match ever played in New Zealand". Holle wrote an account of the Auckland team's tour which was published as a pamphlet in March 1894: ''Tour of the Auckland Representative Cricket Team, 1893''. Holle served on the committee of the Auckland Cricket Association in the 1890s. He worked in

as the Arch Clark and Sons clothing factory manager. He returned to Australia in March 1897 to live in Sydney. Holle married Amelia ("Millie") Corder in Wellington in September 1883. He died in Sydney in 1929, aged 69; she died in Brisbane in 1938; they had a son and a daughter.

References

External links

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''Tour of the Auckland Representative Cricket Team, 1893''
digitised version at

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