Henry Morrison (cricketer) explained

Henry Bannerman Morrison (20 September 1850 – 10 November 1913) was a Scottish-born cricketer who played in New Zealand for Otago during the 1880–81 season. He was born at Glasgow in 1850.^[1]

A batsman and medium-pace bowler, Henry Morrison played for Southland against the English touring team in March 1877, winning the prize for the best fieldsman in the match.^[2] A year later, against the Australian touring team, he took six wickets for 87 runs.^[3] He later made a single first-class appearance for Otago, during the 1880–81 season, against Canterbury. From the lower-middle order, he scored 17 runs in the first innings in which he batted, and a duck in the second, as Otago lost the match by an innings.^{[4] [5]}

Morrison was a farmer by trade.^[6] He died in England at Burgess Hill in Sussex in 1913, aged 63.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Henry Morrison . Cricinfo . 30 June 2020.
2. All England Cricket Match . Southland Times . 9 March 1877 . 2 .
3. The Australian Eleven v. Twenty-Two of Invercargill . The Age . 21 January 1878 . 3 .
4. Web site: Canterbury v Otago 1880-81 . CricketArchive . 18 June 2020.
5. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/22/22527/22527.html Henry Morrison
6. McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 95. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.)