{{short description|Australian cricketer (1870-1947)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{use Australian English|date=January 2017}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Alick Mackenzie | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = Alick Mackenzie.png | image_size = | alt = | caption = | full_name = Alexander Cecil Knox Mackenzie | birth_date = 7 August 1870 | birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|1947|4|11|1870|8|7|df=yes}} | death_place = Epping, New South Wales, Australia | nickname = Big Alick | heightft = 6 | heightinch = 3.5 | batting = Right-handed | role = Batsman | family = Stuart Mackenzie (grandson) | club1 = New South Wales | year1 = {{nowrap|1888/89–1906/07}} | club2 = Rest of Australia | year2 = {{nowrap|1898/99–1899/1900}} | type1 = FC | debutdate1 = 21 December | debutyear1 = 1888 | debutfor1 = New South Wales | debutagainst1 = Australian XI | lastdate1 = 16 March | lastyear1 = 1907 | lastfor1 = New South Wales | lastagainst1 = Western Australia | hidedeliveries = true | columns = 1
| column1 = First-class | matches1 = 48 | runs1 = 2,150 | bat avg1 = 25.90 | 100s/50s1 = 1/17 | top score1 = 130 | catches/stumpings1 = 40/– | source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/alick-mackenzie-6447 CricInfo | date = 27 May | year = 2022 }}
'''Alexander Cecil Knox Mackenzie''' (7 August 1870 – 11 April 1947) was an Australian cricketer.<ref name="Bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/6447.html |title=Alick Mackenzie |accessdate=6 January 2017 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}</ref> He played 48 first-class matches for New South Wales and Rest of Australia between seasons 1888/89 and 1906/07.<ref name="CA">{{Cite web |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/5/5967/5967.html |title=Alick Mackenzie |accessdate=6 January 2017 |work=Cricket Archive}}</ref> In the Sydney grade competition he is most well known for having played for the Paddington and Waverley clubs.
==Early life== thumb|Photograph of the Sydney Boys High School Cadet Corps in 1884. Alick Mackenzie is in the third row, first on the left.|left Alick Mackenzie was the eldest child of Nicholas James and Mary Ann (née Robinson) Mackenzie, and was born on 7 August 1870 at his parents residence located at 9 Queen Street in The Rocks, Sydney.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article211526785|title=Family Notices|date=20 August 1870|work=Protestant Standard (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1895)|access-date=18 January 2018|pages=4}}</ref> Nicholas was a prominent shopkeeper who ran a mercery business in George Street. He was a leading member of the Orange Order and held various positions in the organisation such as Grand Treasurer.
Alick first attended Crown Street Public School<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164040062|title=PROMINENT CRICKETERS. SEASON 1905-6.|date=3 January 1906|work=Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912)|access-date=19 January 2018|pages=36}}</ref> and was later part of the first enrolment of students to Sydney Boys High School in 1883.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18021820|title=Talking of SPORT|date=17 April 1947|work=Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)|access-date=19 January 2018|pages=8}}</ref> He represented his high school in cricket and rifle shooting.
Growing up in Paddington, Alick and his younger brothers were childhood friends of Victor Trumper, Alick's future Paddington and New South Wales teammate.
==Junior club cricket== Alick's first season of competitive club cricket was the 1885/86 season in which he played for the Winchester club. Despite it being his first season of cricket, he won the award for the highest batting average in the team.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71124469|title=Cricket. A Rising Sydney Cricketer.|date=12 October 1889|work=Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1907)|access-date=22 January 2018|pages=40}}</ref> The following season, 1886/87 he played for the Mansfield club.<ref name=":0" /> In his last season of junior cricket, 1887/88, he played for the Verona cricket club, during which he made a top score of 206 not out.<ref name=":0" />
==Senior club cricket== thumb|Portrait of Alick Mackenze during the time he played for the Sydney club|left Alick Mackenzie joined the newly formed Sydney Cricket Club for the 1888/89 season.<ref name=":0" /> The club was founded by Phil Sheridan, a prominent Sydney cricket identity of the time. Future Australian test captains Monty Noble and Syd Gregory were teammates of Alick's in the Sydney team. He would play with the club for five seasons before the introduction of the electorate club system in 1893. During his time with the Sydney Cricket Club he was one of the most successful batsmen across all of the Sydney clubs and it was his performances for the club which saw him selected to make his first class debut for New South Wales in late 1888 in a game against an Australian XI. His season-by-season record for the club is as follows: {| class="wikitable" |+Alick Mackenzie Batting Statistics for Sydney Cricket Club !Season !Innings !Not Outs !High Score !Runs !Average |- |1888/89<ref>{{Cite news|date=1889-05-15|title=SYDNEy CRICKET CLUB.|pages=6|work=Referee (Sydney, NSW : 1886 - 1939)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127588703|access-date=2021-09-01}}</ref> |12 |3 |60 |309 |34.3 |- |1889/90<ref>{{Cite news|date=1890-05-09|title=CRICKET.|pages=5|work=Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13786527|access-date=2021-09-01}}</ref> |14 |1 |112 |517 |39.8 |- |1890/91<ref>{{Cite news|date=1891-05-15|title=CRICKET.|pages=6|work=Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article235848023|access-date=2021-09-01}}</ref> |8 |0 |120 |184 |23.0 |- |1891/92<ref>{{cite web | url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article120657059 | title=Sydney Cricket Club | newspaper=Referee | date=8 June 1892 }}</ref> |8 |2 |72* |232 |38.7 |- |1892/93 | | | | | |}
==Sydney Grade Cricket== ===Paddington 1893/94 to 1899/1900=== thumb|The Paddington team that won the 1894/95 first grade premiership. Alick Mackenzie is seated on the far right of the front row. thumb|Photograph of the Paddington team that won the 1897/98 first grade premiership. Alick Mackenzie is in the back row, second from left. When the Sydney Grade Cricket competition was formed in 1893 he played for the Paddington club due to the fact he resided in that suburb. During his time at Paddington he was a teammate of Australian Test stars Victor Trumper and Monty Noble. Two of Alick's younger brothers also played alongside him for Paddington in this period. Alick won two premierships with Paddington in seasons 1894/95 and 1897/98. {| class="wikitable" |+ !Season !Innings !Not Out !High Score !Runs !Average !Notes |- |1893/94 |6 |1 |83 |201 |40.20<ref>{{Cite news|date=1894-05-05|title=ATHLETICS.|pages=921|work=Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163329683|access-date=2021-09-21}}</ref> | |- |1894/95 |12 |0 |72 |333 |27.75<ref>{{Cite news|date=1895-05-04|title=CRICKET.|pages=11|work=Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article238529911|access-date=2021-09-21}}</ref> |Won the Sydney Grade premiership (Hordern Shield) |- |1895/96 |11 |0 |214 |565 |51.36<ref>{{Cite news|date=1896-05-23|title=PADDINGTON ELECTORATE CRICKET CLUB.|pages=6|work=Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14050714|access-date=2021-09-21}}</ref> |Leading aggregate run scorer in the competition |- |1896/97 |10 |0 |105 |419 |41.90<ref>{{Cite news|date=1897-04-07|title=Cricket.|pages=2|work=Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108061575|access-date=2021-09-21}}</ref> | |- |1897/98 |8 |0 |147 |409 |51.13<ref>{{Cite news|date=1898-08-27|title=Paddington Cricket Club.|pages=505|work=Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163809775|access-date=2021-09-21}}</ref> |Won the Sydney Grade premiership (Hordern Shield) |- |1898/99 |7 |0 |61 |253 |36.14<ref>{{Cite web|title=THE ADDITIONAL AVERAGES. - The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) - 8 May 1899|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14213285|access-date=2021-09-21|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=8 May 1899 |language=en}}</ref> | |- |1899/1900 |8 |0 |166 |370 |52.86<ref>{{Cite news|date=1900-07-27|title=CRICKET.|pages=4|work=Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14326961|access-date=2021-09-21}}</ref> | |- |'''Total''' |'''62''' |'''1''' |'''214''' |'''2550''' |'''42.50''' | |}
===Waverley 1900/01 to 1909/10=== thumb|Photograph of the Waverley team that won the 1902/03 first grade premiership. Alick Mackenzie is seated in the middle row, third from left. After the 1899/1900 season Alick moved to the Waverley club as he was now living within their residential boundaries. He would play for the Waverely club until his retirement at the conclusion of the 1909/10 season. Alick captained Waverley to a premiership in season 1902/03. This was the clubs first premiership. That same season Alick was the leading aggregate run-scorer and obtained the highest batting average in the competition. Throughout the rest of his career Alick was a consistent run-scorer for Waverley consistently averaging over 40 runs per innings. {| class="wikitable" |+ !Season !Innings !Not Out !High Score !Runs !Average !Notes |- |1900/01 |10 |0 |127 |322 |32.20<ref>{{Cite news|date=1901-07-26|title=CRICKET.|pages=8|work=Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article237268060|access-date=2021-09-21}}</ref> | |- |1901/02 |9 |0 |79 |260 |28.89 | |- |1902/03 |10 |0 |150 |626 |62.60 |Leading aggregate and average run scorer in the competition |- |1903/04 |9 |0 |189 |533 |59.22 | |- |1904/05 |10 |0 |63 |249 |24.90 | |- |1905/06 |12 |2 |117 |634 |63.40 | |- |1906/07<ref>{{Cite news|date=1907-04-15|title=CRICKET.|pages=2|work=Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115226751|access-date=2021-08-19}}</ref> |8 |0 |73 |249 |31.13 | |- |1907/08 |6 |0 |68 |244 |40.67 | |- |1908/09<ref>{{Cite news|date=1909-04-28|title=REVIEW OF THE SEASON. WAVERLEY.|pages=8|work=Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW : 1900 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166749333|access-date=2021-08-19}}</ref> |10 |1 |165 |432 |48.00 | |- |1909/10<ref>{{Cite news|date=1910-04-27|title=First Grade Averages.|pages=48|work=Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264077891|access-date=2021-08-19}}</ref> |7 |0 |133 |303 |43.29 | |- |'''Total''' |'''91''' |'''3''' |'''189''' |'''3852''' |'''43.77''' | |}
Alick retired from all competitive cricket at the conclusion of the 1909/10 season. In total he scored 6,275 runs in his first grade career at an average 42.39 over 155 innings with 15 centuries and 32 fifties and a highest score of 214.<ref>{{Cite web|title=NSW Premier Cricket|url=http://www.premier.nsw.cricket.com.au/home.aspx?|access-date=2021-10-06|website=www.premier.nsw.cricket.com.au}}</ref>
==First-class cricket== thumb|Photo of the New South Wales team that played Victoria in December 1889. Alick Mackenzie in the middle row second from left. Alick made his first-class debut as an 18 year old in December 1888<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13707925|title=CRICKET.|date=21 December 1888|work=Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)|access-date=19 January 2018|pages=5}}</ref> when he was selected to play for New South Wales against an Australian XI. He performed well on debut, his score of 34 being amongst the best of the NSW batsman and made against Australia's best bowlers of the day.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13708085|title=THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN V. AN ELEVEN OF NEW SOUTH WALES.|date=22 December 1888|work=Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)|access-date=19 January 2018|pages=13}}</ref> Alick would play for NSW on a regular basis from that point until season 1902/03. He played only one more game for NSW after that season, which came in season 1906/07 when he appeared for NSW against Western Australia in Perth.
During the 1893/94 season Alick was selected in the New South Wales team that toured New Zealand from January to February 1894. He was the leading run scorer on the tour.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1890S/1893-94/NSW_IN_NZ/NSW_IN_NZ_JAN-FEB1894_STATS.html|title = New South Wales in New Zealand, 1893/94: Statistics}}</ref>
The highlight of Alick's first class career came during the 1897/98 season when he scored his only first class century (130) playing for New South Wales in a match against the touring England team.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page1358320|title=The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) - 7 Feb 1898 - p5|website=Trove|language=en|access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref> In two matches against the England team that season Alick made consecutive scores of 80, 59, 130, 52 for an average of 80.25. As a result of these performances, he was generally considered to be in contention for a spot in the Australia team for the fifth test match of the 1897/98 Ashes series but ultimately didn't gain selection.
Alick retired at the conclusion of the 1909/10 season. As a reward for his services to the game he was named as manager of the Australian team that toured New Zealand from February to April 1910<ref>{{Cite news|date=15 January 1910|title=TRIANGULAR CRICKET.|pages=13|work=Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15120933|access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref> and subsequently appeared for the Australian team in their match against Taranaki.<ref>{{Cite news|date=23 March 1910|title=CRICKET IN N.Z.|pages=9|work=Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article116061877|access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref>
=== First-class career statistics === {| class="wikitable" !Season !Matches !Innings !Not Outs !Runs !Highest Score !100 !50 !Average !Notes |- |1888/89 |1 |1 |0 |34 |34 | - | - |34.00 |First-class debut vs Australian XI |- |1889/90 |1 |2 |0 |12 |8 | - | - |6.00 | |- |1890/91 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |- |1891/92 |2 |4 |0 |26 |25 | - | - |6.50 | |- |1892/93 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |- |1893/94 |10 |18 |0 |378 |60 | - |2 |21.00 |Toured New Zealand with New South Wales |- |1894/95 |2 |4 |0 |68 |37 | - | - |17.00 | |- |1895/96 |5 |9 |0 |376 |97 | - |3 |41.77 | |- |1896/97 |4 |7 |1 |126 |50 | - |1 |21.00 | |- |1897/98 |6 |12 |0 |506 |130 |1 |5 |41.83 |Leading run scorer in NSW matches |- |1898/99 |5 |9 |1 |224 |62* | - |2 |28.00 |Selected in Rest of Australia team |- |1899/1900 |5 |7 |0 |135 |65 | - |1 |19.28 |Selected in Rest of Australia team |- |1900/01 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |- |1901/02 |1 |2 |0 |27 |20 | - | - |13.50 | |- |1902/03 |5 |9 |0 |191 |77 | - |2 |21.22 | |- |1903/04 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |- |1904/05 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |- |1905/06 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |- |1906/07 |1 |2 |1 |51 |51* | - |1 |51.00 | |- |'''Total''' |'''48''' |'''86''' |2 |'''2150''' |'''130''' |'''1''' |'''17''' |'''25.90''' | |}
== H.V. Hordern and the Googly == thumb|Portrait of Alick Mackenzie c.1905 Alick Mackenzie was a contemporary of H. V. Hordern who is well known as the first Australian cricketer to develop the ability to bowl the googly (wrong 'un) delivery. The googly is a delivery bowled by a leg spin bowler in a normal manner, but which turns in the opposite direction to a normal leg-break. The delivery was originally developed by English cricketer Bernard Bosanquet in the early 1900s while he was a student at Oxford University and he used it to great effect against Australia's batsman on England's tour of Australia in 1903/04. After witnessing Bosanquet bowl the googly, Hordern committed to teaching himself how to bowl it. Prior to the commencement of the 1905/06 season Hordern asked Alick to join him at the Sydney Cricket Ground so that he could practice bowling the new delivery. The first two deliveries that he bowled were full tosses and promptly hit to the boundary by Mackenzie. The third landed on the pitch, spun, beat the bat and clean bowled the batsman. It was after this occurrence that Hordern begun using the googly in first-class matches.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/30/1075340840604.html|title=The first home spin hero - www.theage.com.au|website=www.theage.com.au|date=31 January 2004|access-date=18 January 2018}}</ref>
== Personal life == On 19 May 1900 Alick married Jessie Maud Phelps.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14318078|title=Family Notices|date=16 June 1900|work=Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)|access-date=19 January 2018|pages=1}}</ref> They had four children.
After leaving school, Alick entered employment as a clerk with the New South Wales Department of Audit.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page16511552|title=The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912) - 18 Jan 1890 - p140|website=Trove|language=en|access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref> He would remain with the department until his retirement in the 1930s.
== Life after cricket == After his cricket career finished in 1910, Alick took up the sport of competitive lawn bowls.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page15582881|title=Referee (Sydney, NSW : 1886 - 1939) - 27 Jun 1935 - p13|website=Trove|language=en|access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref>
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