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Full name | John Bentham Morris | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Paddington, London, England | 9 January 1933||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 9 January 1970 Auckland, New Zealand | (aged 37)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1951–52 to 1956–57 | Auckland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ESPNcricinfo, 29 December 2020 |
John Bentham Morris (9 January 1933 – 9 January 1970) was a New Zealand cricketer and orthopaedic surgeon.
Morris was born in London in January 1933, the son of an orthopaedic surgeon, and his family moved to New Zealand when he was a boy. He was educated at King's College, Auckland, and the University of Otago, where he graduated in medicine in 1956. [1] He furthered his orthopaedic training in the UK and the US before returning to New Zealand and taking up the position of orthopaedic surgeon at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland. [1] He and his Middlemore Hospital colleague Ross Nicholson pioneered hip replacement surgery in New Zealand. [2] He died of illness in January 1970, survived by his wife and their three children. [1]
Morris played 23 first-class cricket matches for Auckland between 1951 and 1957. [3] A right-handed middle-order batsman, described as "an exciting stylist", [4] he scored 45 and 103 in Auckland's victory over Wellington in the 1953–54 Plunket Shield. [5] His other first-class century was 101 not out in Auckland's victory over Central Districts in the 1952–53 Plunket Shield. [6] He was Auckland's leading scorer in the 1954–55 Plunket Shield, with 280 runs at an average of 35.00. [7] He played for North Island in a trial match before the Test series against England in 1954–55 and scored 34, but was not selected for the Test team. [8]