#otago

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Cricket in New Zealand — The Canterbury and Otago Grounds, 1860s

Canterbury, Otago and Wellington cricket clubs

1864-01-01

New Zealand cricket developed rapidly through the 1860s as the provinces of Canterbury, Otago and Wellington established permanent clubs and grounds. The Canterbury Cricket Association, founded in 1877 but preceded by informal organisations in the 1860s, and the Otago Cricket Association grew from the inter-provincial matches played from the 1860s onward; the gold rush of the 1860s in Otago brought thousands of new immigrants, many of them cricket-playing British emigrants.

#overarm-era#early-county-cricket#1860s

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First Organised Cricket in New Zealand — Otago and Nelson, Early 1850s

New Zealand settler clubs

1851-01-15

Cricket arrived in New Zealand with the first organised British settlements in the 1840s. By the early 1850s organised club cricket was established in Nelson and Otago — the two principal South Island settlements — and matches between local clubs were drawing settler crowds. The game spread rapidly with the Canterbury and Otago settlement schemes, laying the foundations for New Zealand first-class cricket a generation later.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1850s