Ernest Currie

Ernest Currie
Birth nameErnest William Currie[1]
Date of birth(1873-04-09)9 April 1873[1]
Place of birthDunedin, Otago, New Zealand[1]
Date of death23 October 1932(1932-10-23) (aged 59)
Place of deathRandwick, New South Wales, Australia
Rugby union career
Position(s) scrum-half[1]
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1899[1] Australia 1[1] (0[1])

Ernest William Currie (9 April 1873 – 23 October 1932) was a New Zealand-born rugby union international for Australia and a first-class cricketer.

Cricket career

Currie, who was born at Dunedin, represented Otago in six first-class cricket matches during the 1894–95 and 1893–94 New Zealand cricket seasons, as a wicket-keeper.[2] He was regarded as one of New Zealand's best wicket-keepers of his time, "a lightning hand behind the sticks".[3]

After moving to Australia, he appeared in one further first-class match for Queensland, against New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1899.

Currie shown front row 2nd from right,[4] after the 1 July Queensland match against the 1899 British Lions.[5]

Rugby union career

Currie, a scrum-half, claimed one international rugby cap for Australia. He played against Great Britain, at Brisbane, on 22 July 1899, the second ever Test match played by an Australian national side. His performance in that match was noted as "excellent" by the press.[6]

Personal life

Currie worked as a clerk.[7] He and his wife Annie had a son and two daughters. He died at Randwick in 1932 aged 59.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Scrum.com player profile of Ernest Currie". Scrum.com. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
  2. ^ "First-Class Matches played by Ernest Currie". CricketArchive.
  3. ^ "The Doyen of N.Z. Wicketkeepers". Dominion: 12. 11 October 1913. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  4. ^ "The BattleStained Queensland Team AS Photographed Immediately After The Match" (Photograph with caption.). The Queenslander. Brisbane, Australia. 8 July 1899. p. 73 S. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
  5. ^ "International Football". The Queenslander. Brisbane, Australia. 8 July 1899. p. 73 S. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
  6. ^ "INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL". Queanbeyan Age. 26 July 1899. p. 2. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
  7. ^ McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2 (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.)
  8. ^ "Deaths". The Sydney Morning Herald: 8. 24 October 1932. Retrieved 14 July 2018.