Dick Houston
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| Full name | Richard Shinnock Houston | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Script error: No such module "person date". Brighton, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | Script error: No such module "person date". Williamstown, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman, occasional wicket-keeper, occasional bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1885-1898 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Richard Shinnock Houston (30 June 1863 – 27 November 1921) was an Australian cricketer and Australian rules footballer. He played 23 first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1885 and 1898.[1]
Dick Houston was a right-handed batsman who also sometimes bowled and kept wicket. He was an early exponent of the switch hit, changing suddenly from right-handed to left-handed in order to play the ball more effectively.[2] His highest first-class score was 72, when he captained Victoria to victory over Tasmania in 1893–94.[3] In the 1880s he won the batting average for North Melbourne for five consecutive seasons, including two seasons when he also won the bowling average.[4] He set a record for the Williamstown Cricket Club in 1902-03 when he scored 213 not out against Brighton.[5]
Houston was also an Australian rules footballer, playing 133 matches for North Melbourne in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) between 1881 and 1890, and also playing three matches for St Kilda in 1889 when the team were short of players, before crossing to Geelong.[6] From 1891 to his retirement from football in 1894, he was the caretaker at Corio Oval in Geelong, and also captained both the Geelong cricket and football teams.[7] He played 71 matches with Geelong, for a career total of 207 VFA matches.[6]
Houston and his wife Marion had four children. At the time of his death, he was the caretaker of the Williamstown Cricket Ground, where he died, aged 58.[8][9]
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Richard Houston". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.J. W. (6 December 1924). "Curious Cricket Decision". Australasian: 31.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Victoria v Tasmania 1893-94". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dick Houston Mourned". Sporting Globe: 10. 6 September 1922.
- ^ A. G. Moyes, Australian Cricket: A History, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1959, p. 39.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dick Houston". Australian Football. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Late "Dick" Houston". Geelong Advertiser: 4. 6 December 1921.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."A Cricketer's Demise". Williamstown Chronicle: 2. 3 December 1921.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Deaths". Argus: 17. 3 December 1921.
External links
- Dick Houston at ESPNcricinfoTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
- Dick Houston at Australian Football
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