Percy Pratt | |
Fullname: | Percy Mackenzie Pratt |
Birth Date: | 12 January 1874 |
Birth Place: | Bareilly, British India |
Club1: | Taranaki |
Year1: | 1894–95 to 1897–98 |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 5 |
Runs1: | 227 |
Bat Avg1: | 32.42 |
100S/50S1: | 0/1 |
Top Score1: | 85 |
Deliveries1: | 138 |
Wickets1: | 2 |
Bowl Avg1: | 44.50 |
Fivefor1: | 0 |
Tenfor1: | 0 |
Best Bowling1: | 2/26 |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 0/0 |
Date: | 8 January 2017 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/38216.html Cricinfo |
Percy Mackenzie Pratt (12 January 1874 – 20 July 1961) was a cricketer who played five matches of first-class cricket for Taranaki from 1895 to 1898.
Pratt's highest score was 85, in Taranaki's only first-class victory, against Hawke's Bay in March 1897. He and William Crawshaw (106) added 114 for the third wicket.[1] He scored his runs "very rapidly" and hit 13 fours.[2]
Pratt continued to represent the region after Taranaki lost first-class status after the 1897–98 season. Against the Australians in 1909–10 he top-scored for Taranaki with 31 in a match that ended in a close draw.[3] Four years later he opened for South Taranaki against the Australians and scored 89; the next-highest Taranaki scorer made 33.[4] He represented South Taranaki in the Hawke Cup from 1911 to 1922.[5]
Pratt ran a cabinet-making, upholstering and undertaking business in Hāwera.[6] He married Beatrice Annie King in Hawera in February 1902.[7] He and his family went to live in Norfolk Island in 1928.[8] Later they moved to Western Australia, where they had a property beside the Hay River near Denmark.[9]