Alfred Sloman

{{Short description|New Zealand cricketer (1874–1938)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Alfred Sloman | image = | country = | fullname = John Alfred Sloman | birth_date = {{birth date|1874|4|15|df=yes}} | birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand | death_date = {{death date and age|1938|8|27|1874|4|15|df=yes}} | death_place = Auckland, New Zealand | batting = | bowling = | role =

| club1 = Auckland | year1 = 1903/04 | date = 21 June | year = 2016 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/38497.html ESPNcricinfo }}

'''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.<ref name=ci>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/38497.html Alfred Sloman], CricInfo. Retrieved 21 June 2016.</ref>

Sloman was born at Auckland in 1874 and, after winning a scholarship, educated at Auckland Grammar School.<ref name=mc>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}} ([https://archive.acscricket.com/cricketers_series/new_zealand_cricketers_1863-64_2010/index.html Available online] at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.)</ref> 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.<ref>Cricket, ''Auckland Star'', vol. XLVI, issue 34, 9 February 1915, p. 7. ([https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19150209.2.68.1 Available online] at Papers Past. Retrieved 25 August 2024.)</ref> As a bowler he was considered effective at times.<ref>Cricket, ''The Observer'', vol. XXXV, issue 26, 6 March 1915, p. 10. ([https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TO19150306.2.19.1 Available online] at Papers Past. Retrieved 25 August 2024.)</ref>

In November 1903 Sloman was selected as one of 16 players to practice ahead of Auckland's representative fixtures later in the season.<ref>The cricket season, ''New Zealand Herald'', vol. XL, issue 12432, 30 November 1903, p. 3. ([https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19031130.2.10 Available online] at Papers Past. Retrieved 25 August 2024.)</ref> 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.<ref name=ca>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/22/22861/22861.html Alfred Sloman], CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 August 2024. {{subscription}}</ref><ref>Cricket: Auckland v Wellington, ''Auckland Star'', vol. XXXIV, issue 306, 24 December 1903, p. 2. ([https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19031224.2.4 Available online] at Papers Past. Retrieved 25 August 2024.)</ref>

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.<ref name=ca/> He is also known to have umpired some first-class cricket.<ref name=mc/> He died in 1938 aged 64.

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