Noel Harford

Noel Harford

Personal information
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling style	Right-arm slow-medium
International information
National side	New Zealand
Career statistics
Competition	Tests	First-class
Matches	8	74
Runs scored	229	3149
Batting average	15.26	27.62
100s/50s	0/2	3/18
Top score	93	158
Balls bowled	-	924
Wickets	-	18
Bowling average	-	26.55
5 wickets in innings	-	0
10 wickets in match	-	0
Best bowling	-	3/19
Catches/stumpings	-/-	39/-
Source: Cricinfo,

Noel Sherwin Harford, born 30 August 1930 in Winton and died at Auckland on 30 March 1981, was a cricketer who played for Central Districts, Auckland and New Zealand.

A neat right-handed batsman strong at driving and pulling but weak in defence and against spin, Harford came to prominence on the New Zealand tour to Pakistan and India in 1955-56, and made his Test debut against Pakistan at Lahore, scoring 93 and 64.^[1] That debut, though, proved by some distance to be Harford's most successful Test appearance.

In England in the wet summer of 1958, Harford made his maiden century against Oxford University. He made 158, his highest first-class score, and shared a partnership of 204 with his captain, John Reid in two hours and 10 minutes.^[2] But in eight innings in four Test matches, he scored just 41 runs and reached double figures only once, a gritty innings of 23 at Edgbaston in which he had to retire for a period after being hit in the face by a bouncer from Fred Trueman.

In all, Harford played eight Test matches and scored 229 runs at an average of just over 15 runs per innings.

After his cricket career, he played basketball for New Zealand.

References

1. ^ "Scorecard: Pakistan v New Zealand". www.cricketarchive.com. 1955-10-26. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/21/21795.html. Retrieved 2010-02-06. 
2. ^ "Scorecard: Oxford University v New Zealanders". www.cricketarchive.com. 1958-05-21. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/22/22911.html. Retrieved 2010-02-05. 

Persondata
Name	Harford, Noel
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1930
Place of birth
Date of death	1981
Place of death