Trevor Meale

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Trevor Meale New Zealand (NZ)
Batting style	Left-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm medium
	Tests	First-class
Matches	2	32
Runs scored	21	1352
Batting average	5.25	27.59
100s/50s	-/-	2/5
Top score	10	130
Balls bowled	-	12
Wickets	-	-
Bowling average	-	-
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	-
Best bowling	-	-
Catches/stumpings	-/-	17/-
Test debut: 5 June 1958 Last Test: 21 August 1958 Source: [1]

Trevor Meale (born November 11, 1928, Papatoetoe, Auckland) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in two Tests in 1958.

A left-handed opening batsman, Trevor Meale played several times for Wellington in Plunket Shield matches in the early 1950s, but his only centuries came in matches against touring teams. Against the West Indian cricket team in his debut season of 1951-52, his unbeaten 112 saved the match for Wellington, while his 130 against Fiji in 1953-54 was his last first-class innings for almost four years, and remained his highest score. He then moved to England to try to get into first-class cricket there, but was not successful.

Meale re-emerged in New Zealand in the trial games from which the 1958 New Zealand cricket team to England was picked, and was duly selected for the trip. But on a disastrous tour in a very wet English summer, he was not a success: he scored just over 500 runs and averaged only 21 runs per innings. An undefeated 64 against Somerset saw him picked for the first Test: batting at No 6, he scored 7 in the first innings and 10 in the second, with a four and a six. He was dropped for the next three Tests, but reappeared in a rain-ruined final Test at The Oval, where he scored just 1 and 3. After the tour was over, he retired from first-class cricket.