Ian Leggat
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- For the Canadian golfer see Ian LeggattIan LeggattIan Donald Leggatt is a Canadian professional golfer.Leggatt was born in Cambridge, Ontario. He has won one PGA Tour event and one Nationwide Tour event....
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Ian Bruce Leggat (born 7 June 1930) is a former New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er who played in one Test
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
in 1954. In 1952-53 he and Harry Cave
Harry Cave
Henry "Harry" Butler Cave was a New Zealand cricketer who captained New Zealand in nine of his nineteen Tests....
added 239 for the ninth wicket for the Central Districts
Central Districts Stags
The Central Districts Stags are a New Zealand first class cricket team based in central New Zealand. It competes in the State Championship first class competition and the State Shield domestic one day competition...
against the Otago
Otago Volts
The Otago Volts are a first class cricket team representing the Otago Cricket Association, one of six major associations that make up New Zealand Cricket....
at Dunedin
Dunedin
Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...
. He also played for Nelson
Nelson cricket team
Nelson cricket team is a cricket team representing the Nelson Region of New Zealand and currently competes in the Hawke Cup.Cricket was first reported as being played in Nelson in the Nelson Examiner in March 1844, in a match between the Surveyors of the Land Company and Nelson...
in the Hawke Cup
Hawke Cup
The Hawke Cup is a cricket competition for New Zealand's District Associations. Apart from 1910/11, 1912/13 and 2000/01 the competition has always been on a challenge basis. In order to win the Hawke Cup the challenger must beat the holder on their home ground...
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Leggat was born in Invercargill, New Zealand. His cousin, Gordon Leggat
Gordon Leggat
John Gordon Leggat has played nine Tests for New Zealand in the 1950s. He died suddenly in 1973.His cousin, Ian Leggat, also played Test cricket for New Zealand....
, also played Test cricket for New Zealand.