Francis Payne

@Jason_Tooley @GoldenAgeCrickt Keeper well back, slips even further and it looks like a fast bowler's follow through. Are we sure it's not opening bowler Johannes Kotze, one of the fastest bowlers of his time?

@GoldenAgeCrickt Not sure why Sherwell would be standing back to Vogler. Frys opening partner Hayward was also st Sherwell b Vogler. Very strange!

Bert Vogler bowling to C.B. Fry during the First Test of 1907 at Lord's. The opener Fry was eventually bowled by Vogler for 33. The South African bowler took 6 of England's top 7 wickets, ending with 7/128.

Hi @ACScricket. Just a reminder to update the Four Sixes off Consecutive Balls list in your records section to include TC O'Connor for Otago v ND in the last round of #PlunketShield games.

@MervRobertson @BLACKCAPS Next season Alex Moir, to whom the ball had been returned, declined to run out WI opener Allan Rae, who slipped and fell turning to reach his crease after backing-up. Rae was on 9, eventually made 99, and the opening stand reached 197. Most people praised Moir's sportsmanship.

@FPayne100 @BLACKCAPS Great yarn. No sport has the yarns that cricket has.

OTD 75 years ago at the Basin Reserve, @BLACKCAPS made 125 off 70 overs and England responded with 42-3 off 24. The pitch was described as "sporting" after rain washed out the first day and rain seeped through the covers. Alex Moir at number nine top scored with 26 not out.

@MervRobertson @BLACKCAPS Apparently the umpires and NZ captain (Walter Hadlee) didn't notice, no one from England said anything and the scorers (if they noticed) had no way to instantly communicate with the umpires. Whether Moir realised has never been clarified.

@FPayne100 @BLACKCAPS How did that happen? Home town umps get blamed?

Sixty years ago, Sydney group the Throb out-covered the Rolling Stones who had covered US singer Benny Spellman's "Fortune Teller". After 60 years of listening to it, I still reckon this is by far THE best version. youtube.com/watch?v=eodq28…

Four-match test series scheduled for @BLACKCAPS ENG 1949 (A) WI 1955/56 (H) IND 1964/65 (A) IND 1967/68 (H) ENG 1983 (A) WI 1984/85 (A) ENG 1999 (A) AUS 2026/27 (A) (Also 5x 5-match series)

@VJMPub No. He was expected to be in the full Australian side which was due to tour and play tests in NZ in 1939/40 but that tour was cancelled because of the little matter of a world war...

@FPayne100 Didn't Bradman come to NZ with a state side?

Just finished "Blue Caps to New Zealand". A meticulously researched, fascinating story of the 1923/24 tour and the tours from other Australian sides which preceded it. Absolutely recommended for anyone interested in the formative years of New Zealand cricket.

@JohnWardTulloch The list in the NZ Cricket Almanack contains the asterisk plus the appropriate footnote: "Full tosses and deliberate no-balls were provided for him to hit"

@FPayne100 That Lee Germon stat needs to come with an asterisk. Vance deliberately Fed runs to tempt Canterbury into a run chase. He bowled a series dolly drops and the over cost 77 runs.

Four or more sixes off consecutive balls in NZ FC cricket 5 L Germon off R Vance C v W 1989/90 4 K Rutherford off D Doshi NZ v DB Close’s XI 1986 4 C McMillan off S Styris C v ND 1996/97 4 T O'Connor off J Brown O v ND today #PlunketShield

James Neesham is the 74th player to captain @BLACKCAPS in any game. The first was Len Cuff when NZ played their first official game 132 years ago static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/189…

@shortflyslip From Wisden.com "He (O'Connor) became only the fourth player to hit four or more consecutive sixes in the Plunket Shield" then quotes my tweet. One instance was Ken Rutherford v DB Close's XI - hardly Plunket Shield.

Came across CricInfo article on Thomas O'Connor, a chunk of which I feel like I wrote since it's obviously lifted from my tweets. Even more obvious example days later with a Wisden dot com piece on Michael Snedden borrowing heavily from @FPayne100. espncricinfo.com/story/a-chip-o…

@shortflyslip @_hypocaust The problem is that you can't copyright facts but, as you say, you "just know"...

@_hypocaust @FPayne100 yes, I'm sure this happens to you many times over. Sometimes you just know.

Mungo Jerry's Ray Dorset is 80 today. Their biggest hit was "In The Summertime" but this is my favourite youtube.com/watch?v=T6PDSm…

@chris_otautahi @hamhammer27 Yes, if you've never been to Lidcombe Station before to try and get to Olympic Park, it is very useful. Just like those street or shopping mall directories which say "you are here".

@hamhammer27 That's actually really useful tbh

“You are currently standing on Platform 1 reading this message”

Still looking for Donald Cameron Currie (ex Canterbury/CD). Appears to have left NZ late 1980s. Sister Margaret Joyce Inness played for @WHITE_FERNS. She died in Wellington 2012. Possibly some family who may know? @Penny_kins

@kiwigolfrentals @PictureSporting All accounts of the time rate him very highly. Selected to tour Australia with the NZ team when only 19. Played his last first-class game still aged just 20.

@PictureSporting Such a shame @FPayne100. In your accounts of this fellow’s playing ability, is the OP correct? Lest we forget.

Rupert Hickmont was one of New Zealand's most promising young batsmen, making his FC debut aged 17 and touring Australia with NZ in 1913-14. He enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in 1915 and was killed in action on the Somme in September 1916. He was 22. Wisden lamented he "was probably the most promising young cricketer in the Dominion, and his early death will be felt severely when the game is resumed"

My grandfather was born 150 years ago today at North End Farm, Dunsby, Lincolnshire. Built in the early 1800s and designated as a Grade 2 listed building in 1987.