Jack Ashenden
New Zealand cricketer
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Jack Gilbert Ashenden (12 May 1911 – 14 November 1992) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Wellington from 1936 to 1945.
Wellington, New Zealand
Sydney, Australia
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| Full name | Jack Gilbert Ashenden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 May 1911 Wellington, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 14 November 1992 (aged 81) Sydney, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1935/36–1944/45 | Wellington | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 6 September 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A right-arm medium-pace bowler, Ashenden partnered Tom Pritchard in opening the bowling for Wellington in the 1938-39 Plunket Shield, when he and Pritchard were two of only six players in the competition to take 10 wickets or more.[1] He took 6 for 44 in the second innings of the innings victory over Otago.[2] At the end of the season he played for New Zealand against Sir Julien Cahn's XI.[3] He had a long career in senior Wellington cricket, taking 846 wickets by the time he retired in 1957.[4]
Ashenden married Joyce Hurren in the late 1930s, and they lived in Wellington.[5][6]
