Richard Torrance
Personal information
Full name
Richard Cameron Torrance
Born(1884-08-14)14 August 1884
Dunedin, New Zealand
Died28 September 1972(1972-09-28) (aged 88)
Dunedin, New Zealand
BowlingLeft-arm medium
RoleBowler
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1905–1928Otago
Umpiring information
Tests umpired1 (1933)
Career statistics
Competition FC
Matches 42
Runs scored 682
Batting average 11.21
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 43
Balls bowled 11,060
Wickets 176
Bowling average 24.71
5 wickets in innings 13
10 wickets in match 4
Best bowling 7/21
Catches/stumpings 17/0
Source: Cricinfo, 16 July 2013

Richard Torrance (14 August 1884 – 28 September 1972) was a New Zealand cricket umpire and player. He stood in one Test match, New Zealand vs. England, in 1933. He played 42 first-class matches for Otago between 1905 and 1928.[1]

Torrance served in Europe with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the First World War as a private.[2]

An accurate left-arm opening bowler, Torrance's best first-class match figures were 42–11–93–14 (7 for 51 and 7 for 42) against Hawke's Bay in the 1908-09 season,[3] when he was the most successful bowler in New Zealand first-class cricket with 28 wickets at an average of 11.57.[4] His best first-class innings figures were 7 for 21 against Southland in 1919-20, when he bowled unchanged through both innings, finishing with match figures of 23.3–8–41–11.[5] He sometimes made useful runs in the lower order, as when in 1925-26 he scored 28 against Canterbury, adding 105 for the last wicket with Reginald Cherry, who was thus able to make his only first-class century.[6][7] In club cricket, which he played in Dunedin until 1931, he played as an all-rounder.[6]

Torrance umpired eight first-class matches in New Zealand between 1932 and 1938, including the First Test in 1932-33.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Richard Torrance". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  2. ↑ "Richard Cameron Torrance". Auckland Museum. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  3. ↑ "Hawke's Bay v Otago 1908-09". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  4. ↑ "First-class Bowling in New Zealand for 1908/09". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  5. ↑ "Otago v Southland 1919-20". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  6. 1 2 H.P.S. (20 November 1931). "Personalities in Sport: No. XXVIII: R. C. Torrance". Evening Star: 14.
  7. ↑ "Canterbury v Otago 1925-26". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  8. ↑ "Richard Torrance as Umpire in First-Class Matches". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
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