Norman Gallichan was a 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 for Wellington and New Zealand

New Zealand cricket team

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A tall slow left-arm bowler and lower-order batsman, Gallichan played most of his cricket for Manawatu in the second-class Hawke Cup competition, appearing irregularly for Wellington. He was a late selection for the 1937 New Zealand tour of England

New Zealand cricket team in England in 1937

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 and did well in the early games, but was reckoned by Wisden

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

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 to have been inconsistent.

His one Test match

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 came at Manchester, where he replaced the injured Alby Roberts

Alby Roberts

Albert William Roberts was a New Zealand cricketer who played in five Tests from 1930 to 1937....

. He took three wickets and scored 32 runs in two innings, but Roberts returned for the final Test of the three-match tour.