Maurice Charles Langdon was born 12 October 1934 in Wanganui

Wanganui

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. He was a New Zealand

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 cricketer who played 25 first-class

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 matches for Northern Districts

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, mostly in the Plunket Shield.

Langdon at one time held the record for best bowling in an innings by a Northern Districts player in first-class cricket. Against Auckland in January 1964, he claimed 8/21.
This surpassed Gren Alabaster

Gren Alabaster

Grenville David Alabaster is a former New Zealand first class cricketer for Otago, Canterbury and Northern Districts. A winner of the New Zealand Cricket Almanack Player of the Year Award in 1972, Alabaster was a right-arm off-break bowler. He represented New Zealand on occasions but never in an...

's mark of 8/30 of less than a year before, and stood until Alex Tait took 9/48 — also against Auckland — in February 1997.