Tom Carlton
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| Full name | Thomas Andrew Carlton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 December 1890 Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 17 December 1973 (aged 83) Moreland, Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | William Carlton (uncle) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1909/10–1914/15 | Canterbury | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1919/20 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1920/21–1921/22 | Otago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1922/23–1923/24 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1928/29–1931/32 | South Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 11 May 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thomas Andrew Carlton (7 December 1890 – 17 December 1973) was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket in New Zealand and Australia from 1909 to 1932.[1]
Cricket career
[edit]Canterbury, 1909–10 to 1914–15
[edit]Born in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray in 1890, Tom Carlton was a tall left-arm pace bowler and useful tail-end batsman who bowled "an impeccable length" and moved the ball away from right-hand batsmen.[2] He moved to New Zealand in late 1909 and settled in Christchurch, where he played alongside his uncle, William Carlton, who had been appointed coach of the Canterbury Cricket Association.[3]
Carlton made his first-class debut for Canterbury in a friendly match against Otago in December 1909, a few days after his 19th birthday. Opening the bowling, he took 4 for 58 and 6 for 42 in Canterbury's four-wicket victory.[4] He thus achieved his career-best innings and match figures in his first match. A few weeks later he made his highest first-class score of 63 against the touring Australians, adding 167 for the seventh wicket with Dan Reese after coming to the wicket when Canterbury were 80 for 6.[5]
He was part of Canterbury's Plunket Shield-winning team in 1910–11 and 1912–13, and was selected to tour Australia with the New Zealand team in 1913–14, although he took only one wicket in the two first-class matches he played on the tour. When he returned to New Zealand he played for Canterbury against the touring Australian team, taking 6 for 142 in the innings in which Victor Trumper and Arthur Sims set the world record eighth-wicket partnership of 433 in 181 minutes.[6]
In the deciding match of the 1914–15 Plunket Shield Carlton top-scored for Canterbury in the second innings with 50 made at number five, and took 5 for 65 and 4 for 38 in the team's victory over Wellington.[7] It was his last match for Canterbury.
Victoria, 1919–20
[edit]Carlton played three matches for Victoria in the 1919–20 season, including one Sheffield Shield match, with moderate success.
Otago, 1920–21 to 1921–22
[edit]He returned to New Zealand, making his debut for Otago (and captaining the side) late in the 1920–21 season against his old side, Canterbury. He took 5 for 39 and 5 for 76 in a 94-run victory.[8] He captained Otago in 1921–22 when they lost all three matches in the Plunket Shield. He was the team's leading wicket-taker with 14 wickets at an average of 27.78,[9] and made a few useful runs in the middle order. At the end of the season he was also the leading wicket-taker, with six wickets, for South Island in a match against North Island.[10]
Victoria, 1922–23 to 1923–24
[edit]Carlton returned to play in Australia in 1922–23, taking 5 for 67 for Victoria in a victory over South Australia in his first match.[11] He played one more match that season and two in 1923–24 but made only modest contributions.
South Australia, 1928–29 to 1931–32
[edit]After a gap of five years Carlton appeared for South Australia in the second half of the 1928–29 season at the age of 38. In his second match he took 5 for 64 off 31 eight-ball overs against Marylebone Cricket Club, including the wickets of Jack Hobbs, Patsy Hendren, Maurice Leyland and Les Ames.[12]
He played throughout the next three seasons. In all he played 27 matches for South Australia, taking 77 wickets at an average of 28.22.[13] He had his most successful season of all in 1930–31, when he took 31 wickets at 21.38. He played his last first-class game at the end of the 1931–32 season at the age of 41.
Carlton returned to live in Victoria in 1932.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 30. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2
- ^ R.T. Brittenden, Great Days in New Zealand Cricket, A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, 1958, p. 40.
- ^ Longslip (23 December 1909). "Cricket". Otago Daily Times: 10.
- ^ Canterbury v Otago 1909–10
- ^ Canterbury v Australians 1909–10
- ^ Canterbury v Australians 1913–14
- ^ Wellington v Canterbury 1914–15
- ^ Otago v Canterbury 1920–21
- ^ Otago bowling, Plunket Shield 1921–22
- ^ South Island v North Island 1921–22
- ^ South Australia v Victoria 1922–23
- ^ "South Australia v MCC 1928–29". Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
- ^ Tom Carlton bowling by team
- ^ "Notes on the Game". Advertiser: 10. 14 October 1932.