| Harry Fannin | |
| Fullname: | Henry Albert Fannin |
| Birth Date: | 25 September 1870 |
| Birth Place: | Napier, New Zealand |
| Club1: | Hawke's Bay |
| Year1: | 1892-93 to 1899-1900 |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 11 |
| Runs1: | 116 |
| Bat Avg1: | 6.10 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
| Top Score1: | 25 |
| Deliveries1: | 1637 |
| Wickets1: | 43 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 14.76 |
| Fivefor1: | 4 |
| Tenfor1: | 2 |
| Best Bowling1: | 8/19 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 8/0 |
| Date: | 8 January 2017 |
| Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21864/21864.html CricketArchive |
Henry Albert Fannin (25 September 1870 – 20 January 1959) was a cricketer who played 11 matches of first-class cricket for Hawke's Bay between 1892 and 1899.
A fast bowler,[1] Fannin had an outstanding season in 1897-98 when he took 22 wickets in two matches. Against Taranaki in December 1897 he took 8 for 49 (including a hat-trick) and 3 for 42 in an innings victory for Hawke's Bay. Nine of his victims were bowled.[2] In Hawke's Bay's next match the following March, getting movement each way off the pitch, he took 8 for 19 (all bowled) and 3 for 35 against Auckland in a drawn match.[3] [4]
Fannin married Margaret Leithead in Woodville in June 1899.[5] In July 1900 Fannin's employers, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, transferred him from Napier to Feilding. In a tribute, the Hastings Standard called him "one of the most good-natured and unselfish fellows who ever slogged a boundary or knocked a stump out of the ground".[6]