George Mills (cricketer, born 1916)

George Henry Mills (1 August 1916 – 17 December 1979) was a New Zealand cricketer. A wicket-keeper, he played 59 first-class matches, 55 of them for Otago between the 1935–36 and 1957–58 seasons.

Born at Dunedin in 1916 and educated at Otago Boys' High School,McCarron, Tony (2010). New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 92. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Mills was Otago's first-choice wicket-keeper for much of the time he played.Superfluous selection, Otago Daily Times, issue 25740, 11 January 1945, p. 3. (valuable online at Papers Past. Retrieved 1 June 2023.) He was an effective batsman who scored 2,056 first-class runs in his career and took 88 catches and made 34 stumpings. He played for a New Zealand XI in a trial match in January 1949, scoring a half-century, but did not receive an international cap.George Mills, CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 June 2023. His final first-class match was his 44th Plunket Shield match, which equalled the competition record held by Alby Roberts.Bert Sutcliffe, Between Overs, Whitcombe & Tombs, Christchurch, 1963, p. 163. He worked professionally as a fitter and was an Otago selector.

Mills died at Dunedin in 1979, aged 63. An obituary was published in the following year's New Zealand Cricket Almanack.

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