Alfred Sloman

Alfred Sloman
Personal information
Full name
John Alfred Sloman
Born(1874-04-15)15 April 1874
Auckland, New Zealand
Died27 August 1938(1938-08-27) (aged 64)
Auckland, New Zealand
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1903/04Auckland
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 21 June 2016

John Alfred Sloman (15 April 1874 – 27 August 1938) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played two first-class matches for Auckland during the 1903–04 season.[1]

Sloman was born at Auckland in 1874 and, after winning a scholarship, educated at Auckland Grammar School.[2] He played club cricket for the Grafton club in Auckland and was considered to be a batsman who could play "freely", with "pretty drives and leg hits" in his repertoire of strokes, although he was also noted to bat "out of his crease" at times.[3] As a bowler he was considered effective at times.[4]

In November 1903 Sloman was selected as one of 16 players to practice ahead of Auckland's representative fixtures later in the season.[5] He was chosen in the final team to play Wellington in a match starting on Christmas Day, opening the batting and recording a duck before dropping down the batting order in Auckland's second innings and scoring 19 runs. He also took his only first-class wicket during the match.[6][7]

Sloman retained his place in Auckland's side for their next first-class fixture, making scores of 0 and five against Canterbury in early January 1904. He played for the side in odds-matches against the touring Australians in February 1905 and the Melbourne Cricket Club tourists the following year and remained a keen club cricketer for many years.[6] He is also known to have umpired some first-class cricket.[2] He died in 1938 aged 64.

  1. ^ Alfred Sloman, CricInfo. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  2. ^ a b McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 121. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2 (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.)
  3. ^ Cricket, Auckland Star, vol. XLVI, issue 34, 9 February 1915, p. 7. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 25 August 2024.)
  4. ^ Cricket, The Observer, vol. XXXV, issue 26, 6 March 1915, p. 10. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 25 August 2024.)
  5. ^ The cricket season, New Zealand Herald, vol. XL, issue 12432, 30 November 1903, p. 3. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 25 August 2024.)
  6. ^ a b Alfred Sloman, CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 August 2024. (subscription required)
  7. ^ Cricket: Auckland v Wellington, Auckland Star, vol. XXXIV, issue 306, 24 December 1903, p. 2. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 25 August 2024.)