# Andrew Labatt

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Andrew_Labatt
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Andrew_Labatt.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Labatt
> Source revision: 1241977994
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{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](/source/Lambeth), England
|        death_date = {{death date and age|1922|4|27|1869|3|1|df=yes}}
|       death_place = [Auckland](/source/Auckland), New Zealand
|           batting = 
|           bowling = 
|              role = All-rounder
| club1             = [Canterbury](/source/Canterbury_cricket_team)
| year1             = {{nowrap|1887/88–1895/96}}
| club2             = [Auckland](/source/Auckland_cricket_team)
| year2             = 1897/98
| columns           = 1
| column1           = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket)
| 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 &ndash; 27 April 1922) was a New Zealand [cricket](/source/cricket)er. He played [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket) for [Canterbury](/source/Canterbury_cricket_team) and [Auckland](/source/Auckland_cricket_team) 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](/source/London). His father was a clergyman in [Swindon](/source/Swindon), [Wiltshire](/source/Wiltshire). He attended several schools, finally [St Edward's School, Oxford](/source/St_Edward's_School%2C_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](/source/Dick_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](/source/Otago_cricket_team) 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](/source/Wellington_cricket_team) 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](/source/New_South_Wales_cricket_team) 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](/source/New_Zealand_cricket_team) first first-class representative match, against New South Wales in [Christchurch](/source/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](/source/New_Zealand_Expeditionary_Force) during [World War I](/source/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](/source/RMS_Tahiti)'' in 1918 when an outbreak of [Spanish influenza](/source/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}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Labatt, Andrew}}
Category:1869 births
Category:1922 deaths
Category:New Zealand cricketers
Category:Pre-1930 New Zealand representative cricketers
Category:Auckland cricketers
Category:Canterbury cricketers
Category:Cricketers from the London Borough of Lambeth
Category:People from Lambeth
Category:People educated at St Edward's School, Oxford
Category:New Zealand military personnel of World War I
Category:British emigrants to New Zealand

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Andrew Labatt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Labatt) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Labatt?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.