Basil Church (cricketer)

Basil Church (October 1849 – 31 January 1881) was an English-born cricketer. He played one first-class match for Otago in the 1871–72 New Zealand season.

Church was born at Kettering, Northamptonshire in England in 1849, the only son of a Church of England clergyman. He worked as a schoolteacher.Deaths, The Star, issue 4087, 27 May 1881, p. 2. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 30 May 2023.McCarron, Tony (2010). New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 33. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. His only first-class match was a December 1871 fixture against Canterbury which Otago lost heavily. He scored three runs, 1 in his first innings and 2 not out in the second. This was the only match played in New Zealand during the season which has been given retrospective first-class status.Basil Church, CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 May 2023.

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