{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2013}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Ross Morgan | image = | caption = | fullname = Ross Winston Morgan | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|2|12|df=y}} | birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand | international = true | internationalspan = 1965–1972 | country = New Zealand | testdebutagainst = Pakistan | testdebutdate = 29 January | testdebutyear = 1965 | testcap = 104 | lasttestdate = 20 April | lasttestagainst = West Indies | lasttestyear = 1972 | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm offbreak | club1 = Auckland | year1 = 1957/58–1976/77 | columns = 2 | column1 = Test | matches1 = 20 | runs1 = 734 | bat avg1 = 22.24 | 100s/50s1 = 0/5 | top score1 = 97 | deliveries1 = 1,114 | wickets1 = 5 | bowl avg1 = 121.79 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 1/16 | catches/stumpings1= 12/– | column2 = First-class | matches2 = 136 | runs2 = 5940 | bat avg2 = 27.50 | 100s/50s2 = 8/32 | top score2 = 166 | deliveries2 = 8339 | wickets2 = 108 | bowl avg2 = 32.94 | fivefor2 = 4 | tenfor2 = 0 | best bowling2 = 6/40 | catches/stumpings2= 85/1 | date = 1 April | year = 2017 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/37727.html Cricinfo }} '''Ross Winston Morgan''' (born 12 February 1941) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played 20 Tests for New Zealand between 1965 and 1972 as a middle-order batsman and off-spinner.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ross Morgan |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1253/1253.html |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref>
==Domestic career== Morgan was only 16 when he made his first-class debut for Auckland in 1957–58. Good all-round form in the Plunket Shield in 1964–65, including 6 for 40 against Central Districts (which remained the best figures of his career),<ref>{{cite web |title=Central Districts v Auckland 1964-65 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/27/27237.html |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref> and 112 not out against Wellington a few days later,<ref>{{cite web |title=Wellington v Auckland 1964-65 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/27/27244.html|publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref> led to his selection in the Test team.<ref name=RLSF30>R. T. Brittenden, ''Red Leather, Silver Fern'', A. H. & A. W. Reed, Wellington, 1965, p. 30.</ref>
He continued playing for Auckland until 1976–77. His highest first-class score was 166 for Auckland against Canterbury at Auckland in 1968–69, out of a total of 314 for 8 declared.<ref>{{cite web |title=Auckland v Canterbury 1968-69 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/29/29897.html |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref>
He played senior club cricket for Parnell in Auckland for more than 30 years, establishing club records which have yet to be broken: most runs (16,028) and most wickets (692).<ref>{{cite web |title=Annual Report 2018-2019 |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55a46fe0e4b0d058cf41c69f/t/5d647a7853f973000106e9ee/1566866184858/PCC+Annual+Report+Final+2018-19+3.8.2019.pdf |website=Parnell Cricket Club |access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref>
==International career== Coming into the Test team when John Sparling withdrew from the selected side,<ref name=RLSF30/> Morgan scored 66 on his debut against Pakistan in the Second Test in Auckland in 1964–65, which was the top score on either side in the match.<ref>{{cite web |title=2nd Test, Auckland, Jan 29 – Feb 2 1965, Pakistan tour of New Zealand |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/pakistan-tour-of-new-zealand-1964-65-61498/new-zealand-vs-pakistan-2nd-test-62963/full-scorecard |publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref> In the next match of the series in Christchurch he scored 97, which was once again New Zealand's top score for the match.<ref>{{cite web |title=3rd Test, Christchurch, Feb 12 – Feb 16 1965, Pakistan tour of New Zealand |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/pakistan-tour-of-new-zealand-1964-65-61498/new-zealand-vs-pakistan-3rd-test-62964/full-scorecard |publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref> He remained in the Test side for the three series in India, Pakistan and England that followed in the next few months, playing some valuable innings and taking occasional wickets with his off-spin, accumulating 663 runs at an average of 30.13 in his first 12 Tests.<ref name=TB/>
Thereafter, however, his Test form deserted him and his final eight Tests over the next seven years yielded only 71 runs.<ref name=TB>{{cite web |title=Test Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Ross Morgan |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1253/t_Batting_by_Season.html |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref> He played his last three Tests in New Zealand's tour of the West Indies in 1972, as a replacement for Richard Collinge, who had to return to New Zealand due to the death of his infant child.<ref>{{cite web |title=Test Cricket Tours – New Zealand to West Indies 1971-72 |url=http://test-cricket-tours.co.uk/page_1741645.html |website=Test-cricket-tours.co.uk |accessdate=28 January 2019 |archive-date=28 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128140029/http://test-cricket-tours.co.uk/page_1741645.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> In these three Tests Morgan made only eight runs and took one wicket.<ref>Henry Blofeld, "New Zealand in the West Indies, 1971-72", ''Wisden'' 1973, pp. 879–98.</ref>
==See also== * List of Auckland representative cricketers
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1253/1253.html Ross Morgan at Cricket Archive] * [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37727.html Ross Morgan at Cricinfo]
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