| Adam Glen | |
| Birth Date: | 1 March 1853 |
| Birth Place: | Dunedin, New Zealand |
| Death Place: | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Bowling: | Right-arm medium |
| Role: | Bowler |
| Club1: | Otago |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 6 |
| Runs1: | 29 |
| Bat Avg1: | 3.22 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
| Top Score1: | 13 |
| Deliveries1: | 655 |
| Wickets1: | 13 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 20.53 |
| Fivefor1: | 0 |
| Tenfor1: | 0 |
| Best Bowling1: | 4/55 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 6/0 |
| Date: | 14 July 2020 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37166.html ESPNcricinfo |
Adam Glen (1 March 1853 - 3 July 1937) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played six first-class matches for Otago between 1873 and 1887.[1]
A right-arm medium-pace bowler who could bowl accurately for long periods, Glen was often able to extract unexpected bounce from the pitch.[2] He achieved some impressive figures for Dunedin Cricket Club (such as 8 for 26, 6 for 9 and 9 for 18)[3] and once took 101 wickets in a season at an average of 4.22.[4] He was not as spectacularly successful at first-class level, but in his first match for Otago, who were weakened by the unavailability of several leading players, he was the team's best bowler against Canterbury, taking 4 for 55 in an innings defeat in February 1873.[5] He was also effective against the touring Australians in 1877–78, taking 3 for 16 from 19.3 four-ball overs.[6]
He later took up umpiring. His first first-class match as an umpire was the Otago–Canterbury match of February 1887 in Christchurch. The Otago player Charlie Frith failed to turn up on the first day, when Glen umpired; when Frith again failed to appear on the second day, Glen was prevailed upon by the Otago team to play – so Glen's debut as an umpire also became his last match as a player.[7] [8] [9] He umpired 10 first-class matches between 1887 and 1898.[10]
Glen married Frances Bellamy in Dunedin in March 1879.[11] They moved in 1906 from Dunedin to Otautau, in Southland, where Glen worked in his son's softgoods business.[12] They returned to Dunedin a few years later, where Glen worked among the composing staff at the Evening Star for 21 years until his retirement in 1934.[13]
They moved to Hāwera in 1935,[14] and Glen died in Auckland in July 1937. His wife and a son and daughter survived him.[15]