{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Andrew Labatt | image = File:A.M. Labatt Observer 1899 01 21.gif | caption = Labatt in 1899 | imagesize = 160px | fullname = Andrew Brennan Mountjoye Labatt | birth_date = {{birth date|1869|3|1|df=yes}} | birth_place = Lambeth, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1922|4|27|1869|3|1|df=yes}} | death_place = Auckland, New Zealand | batting = | bowling = | role = All-rounder | club1 = Canterbury | year1 = {{nowrap|1887/88–1895/96}} | club2 = Auckland | year2 = 1897/98 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 21 | runs1 = 566 | bat avg1 = 15.29 | 100s/50s1 = 0/1 | top score1 = 57 | deliveries1 = 2,527 | wickets1 = 41 | bowl avg1 = 18.36 | fivefor1 = 2 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 5/17 | catches/stumpings1= 30/– | date = 28 February | year = 2019 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37625.html ESPNcricinfo }}
'''Andrew Labatt''' (1 March 1869 – 27 April 1922) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Canterbury and Auckland between 1888 and 1898.<ref name="Bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37625.html |title=Andrew Labatt |accessdate=14 June 2016 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}</ref>
==Early life and cricket career== Labatt was born in London. His father was a clergyman in Swindon, Wiltshire. He attended several schools, finally St Edward's School, Oxford, where he was prominent in sport, before moving to New Zealand in 1887.<ref name=ES/>
Labatt was a middle-order batsman and a bowler who sometimes opened the attack. He was short of stature, "handsome and debonair", and a fine slips fieldsman.<ref name=RTB>R.T. Brittenden, ''Great Days in New Zealand Cricket'', A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, 1958, pp. 21–26.</ref> He played for Canterbury soon after arriving in New Zealand. In his second first-class match, in January 1889, he opened the bowling against Otago and bowled throughout the first innings, taking 5 for 17 as Otago were dismissed for 47.<ref>{{cite web |title=Canterbury v Otago 1888-89 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/3/3420.html |website=CricketArchive |accessdate=28 February 2019}}</ref> In his next match, against Wellington in December 1889, he made the highest score in a low-scoring match with 47 in the first innings.<ref>{{cite web |title=Canterbury v Wellington 1889-90 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/3/3516.html|website=CricketArchive |accessdate=28 February 2019}}</ref>
When New South Wales toured New Zealand in 1893-94 they were undefeated in their first three first-class matches, but when they played Canterbury, Labatt made 42 and took five wickets in an innings victory for Canterbury.<ref>{{cite web |title=Canterbury v New South Wales 1893-94 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/4/4076.html|website=CricketArchive |accessdate=28 February 2019}}</ref> He was included in the team a few days later for New Zealand's first first-class representative match, against New South Wales in Christchurch. New Zealand lost heavily, but Labatt top-scored in the second innings with 17.<ref>{{cite web |title=New Zealand v New South Wales 1893-94 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/4/4078.html|website=CricketArchive |accessdate=28 February 2019}}</ref> He also played the next time New Zealand played New South Wales, in 1895-96. This time he was more successful in the field, with four fine catches, and New Zealand won by 142 runs.<ref>{{cite web |title=New Zealand v New South Wales 1895-96 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/4/4473.html|website=CricketArchive |accessdate=28 February 2019}}</ref><ref name=RTB/>
He moved to Auckland a few weeks after the match against New South Wales, and played two matches for Auckland in 1897-98, captaining the team in his last match.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dark Blue |title=Cricket chat |journal=Press |date=8 February 1896 |page=9 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP18960208.2.46}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Auckland v Hawke's Bay 1897-98 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/4/4936.html|website=CricketArchive |accessdate=28 February 2019}}</ref>
==Later life== Labatt married Gertrude Constance Rowe, whose father was also an English clergyman, in Auckland in March 1896.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Marriages |journal=Star |date=20 March 1896 |page=2 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS18960320.2.10}}</ref> He worked in Auckland as an accountant.<ref name=AM/>
He served in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during World War I.<ref name=AM>{{cite web | url = http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C111321| title = Andrew Mountjoy Labatt| publisher = Auckland Museum | accessdate =26 February 2019}}</ref> He was on the permanent medical staff of the transport ship RMS ''Tahiti'' in 1918 when an outbreak of Spanish influenza caused high mortality amongst the troops on board.<ref name=ES>{{cite news | work= Evening Star | date=2 May 1922 | page=6 | title= Obituary| url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19220502.2.63}}</ref>
When Labatt died in April 1922, Gertrude survived him, along with four sons and a daughter.<ref name=ES/>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{ESPNcricinfo|id=37625}}
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