Ted Badcock
Ted Badcock (right) with Roger Blunt
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| Full name | Frederick Theodore Badcock | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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15 February 1959 Abbottabad, India |
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| Died | 19 September 1982 (aged 85) South Perth, Western Australia |
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 1) | 10 January 1930 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 31 March 1933 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Frederick Theodore Badcock (9 August 1897 – 19 September 1982), or Ted Badcock, was a New Zealand first-class and Test cricketer. Perhaps the best all-rounder in New Zealand in the inter-war period, he played seven Tests for New Zealand between 1930 and 1933, including New Zealand's inaugural Test in 1930. He is the only player to be out first ball in both innings on his Test debut.
He is the first Test cap for New Zealand.
Badcock was born in Abbottabad in North-West Frontier Province of British India (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan). He was educated at Wellington College in Berkshire, and served in the British Army in India. He played for the Surrey Second XI in the Minor Counties Championship in 1923, and emigrated to New Zealand in 1924, where he became a first-class cricketer and cricket coach.
Badcock played first-class cricket for Wellington between 1924/25 and 1929/30, and then for Otago until 1936/37, with a final first-class game in England in 1945.
A fine batsman and bowler, and also an excellent fielder, he was perhaps the best all-rounder in New Zealand in the inter-war period. On occasion, he also opened the batting. He achieved great success with the ball in his first three seasons of domestic cricket. In 1925/26, he took 37 wickets in 4 matches at average of 17.05; in 1926/27, he took 23 wickets in 3 matches, averaging 11.69; in 1927/28, he took 17 wickets in 3 matches at an average 17.94. His batting also started promisingly, hitting 65 in his first game, and 57 in the second, but then did not pass 50 runs until he hit his maiden first-class century against Canterbury in 1927.
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