| Arthur Symonds | |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Fullname: | Arthur Edmund Symonds |
| Birth Date: | 8 May 1890 |
| Birth Place: | Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand |
| Death Place: | Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand |
| Role: | Wicket-keeper |
| Club1: | Otago |
| Year1: | 1926/27 |
| Date: | 25 May |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/38588.html ESPNcricinfo |
Arthur Edmund Symonds (8 May 1890 - 20 April 1946) was a New Zealand sportsman. He played one first-class match for Otago during the 1926–27 season.[1] [2]
Born at Dunedin in 1890, Symonds worked for railway companies.[3] He played rugby union for the Zingari-Richmond club in Dunedin and represented the Otago Rugby Football Union in seven matches between 1911 and 1912. He was described after his death as having "played a good, honest game of football"[4] [5] and in 1930 he was considered to have been one of the club's most prominent players.[6] He was later one of its vice-presidents.[7]
Symonds played club cricket for Dunedin Cricket Club and represented the provincial side in a 1924 fixture against Southland. He scored 43 and 17 and was reported as having "played well", although "he had more than his share of luck".[8]
He played his only first-class match for Otago in February 1927. In the match, which was against Canterbury cricket team at Carisbrook in Dunedin, he kept-wicket, replacing Laurie Green who had broken a rib in the previous match against Auckland.[9] Symonds took one catch and scored five runs, although his wicket-keeping was poor and his performance behind the stumps described as "not too good" as he conceded too many byes.[10] [11] He missed a "good stumping chance", although his keeping improved during the match.[12] He did not play for the representative side again.[2]
Symonds died at Lower Hutt in 1946. He was aged 55.[1]