Dick Staples
Personal information
Full name
Arthur Staples
Born(1878-01-08)8 January 1878
Wellington, New Zealand
Died13 August 1954(1954-08-13) (aged 76)
Wellington, New Zealand
NicknameDick
RoleBatsman
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1901/02–1903/04Wellington
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 4
Runs scored 221
Batting average 31.57
100s/50s 0/2
Top score 78
Balls bowled 186
Wickets 5
Bowling average 16.20
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 3/48
Catches/stumpings 0/–
Source: Cricinfo, 15 December 2023

Arthur "Dick" Staples (8 January 1878 – 13 August 1954) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played in four first-class matches for Wellington from 1901 to 1904.[1][2]

Staples was born in Wellington. He attended Wellington College and worked in Wellington as a bootmaker.[3]

Staples had a reputation in Wellington cricket as a "stonewaller" – an unadventurous, careful batsman.[4][5] He was Wellington's most successful batsman on their short northern tour of December 1903. He was their top scorer in the first match, a loss to Hawke's Bay, when he opened in the first innings and scored 78 in four and a half hours; in the second innings he went in at number six and made 31 not out.[6][7] He was the highest scorer on either side in the second match, when Wellington defeated Auckland, making 67 in three and three-quarter hours in the first innings.[8][9] With 212 runs at an average of 42.40, he was the third-highest run-getter in the New Zealand season.[10] However, he played no further first-class matches.

References

  1. ↑ "Dick Staples". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  2. ↑ "Dick Staples". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  3. ↑ Tony McCarron, New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64 – 2010, ACS, Cardiff, 2010, p. 125.
  4. ↑ "South v. Waiwetu". NZ Truth: 3. 22 January 1910.
  5. ↑ "Out Door Sports and Pastimes". Free Lance: 17. 13 December 1913.
  6. ↑ T. W. Reese, New Zealand Cricket: 1841–1914, Simpson & Williams, Christchurch, 1927, p. 425.
  7. ↑ "Hawke's Bay v Wellington 1903–04". Cricinfo. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  8. ↑ Reese, p. 428.
  9. ↑ "Auckland v Wellington 1903–04". Cricinfo. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  10. ↑ "First-class Batting and Fielding in New Zealand for 1903/04". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
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