Ned Sale

Ned Sale
Personal information
Full name Edmund Vernon Sale
Born (1883-07-06)6 July 1883
Taunton, England
Died 16 November 1918(1918-11-16) (aged 35)
Auckland, New Zealand
Batting style Right-handed
Relations Vernon Sale (son)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1894-95 to 1914-15 Auckland
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 23
Runs scored 1012
Batting average 25.94
100s/50s 2/4
Top score 121
Balls bowled 30
Wickets 2
Bowling average 11.00
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 2/7
Catches/stumpings 17/1
Source: Cricket Archive, 15 October 2014

Edmund Vernon "Ned" Sale (6 July 1883 – 16 November 1918) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Auckland from 1905 to 1915, and played four times for New Zealand in the days before New Zealand played Test cricket.

Cricket career

Ned Sale played one match for Auckland in 1904-05, and none in 1905-06. However, he was reasonably successful in two matches for Auckland against the touring MCC in 1906-07, and was selected for both of New Zealand's matches against the MCC. In the first he opened in the second innings and made 66 in 90 minutes,[1] putting on 112 for the first wicket with James Lawrence, but it was not enough to prevent defeat.[2] In the second match he was less successful with the bat, but took a brilliant catch at a crucial stage in the MCC's second innings: "running across from mid-off [Sale] took the ball sideways with one hand, a wonderful catch, of a sort that is not seen once in a thousand times".[3] New Zealand went on to win by 56 runs and square the series.[4]

In 1909-10 he scored 121 for Auckland against Otago, a match in which he also kept wicket.[5] His only match in 1913-14 was the second of two matches New Zealand played against the touring Australians. Coming to the wicket with the score at 40 for 4, he played "clean, hard strokes all round the wicket" and made 109 not out in three and a half hours out of a team total of 269.[6] He was only the second person to score a century for New Zealand in a first-class match, after Dan Reese.

Personal life

He was a dentist in Auckland.[7] He died in Auckland at the age of 35, a victim of the influenza epidemic of 1918.[8]

His son Vernon played as a batsman for Auckland in the 1930s.[9]

See also

References

  1. Don Neely & Richard Payne, Men in White: The History of New Zealand International Cricket, 1894–1985, Moa, Auckland, 1986, p. 49.
  2. New Zealand v MCC, Christchurch 1906-07
  3. New Zealand Herald, 12 March 1907, p. 6.
  4. New Zealand v MCC, Wellington 1906-07
  5. Auckland v Otago 1909-10
  6. New Zealand Herald, 28 March 1914, p. 10.
  7. Auckland Star, 18 November 1918, p. 6.
  8. New Zealand Herald, 18 November 1918, p. 1.
  9. Vernon Sale at Cricket Archive
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