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New Plymouth High School Old Boys Cricket Club
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New Zealand Representatives
New Plymouth Old Boys have regularly had club members who have been involved with representative cricket for the Taranaki provincial side. There have also been a number of players who have represented Central Districts in the New Zealand First Class cricket system. Below is a profile for each of the New Plymouth Old Boys club members who have had the distinct honour of representing New Zealand.
Will Young
Full name : William Alexander Young
Born November 22, 1992, New Plymouth
Major teams: Central Districts, Central Districts A, New Zealand U19
Batting style : Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm offbreak
Regan West
Full name: Regan Morris West
Born April 27, 1979, New Plymouth, Taranaki
Major teams Ireland, Central Districts,New Zealand Under-19s, Wellington
Batting style: Left-hand bat
Bowling style: Left-arm fast-medium, Slow left-arm orthodox
Ali Jordan
Full name : Alistair Bruce Jordan
Born : September 5, 1949, Inglewood, Taranaki
Major teams: New Zealand, New Zealand U23, Central Districts
Batting style : Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm Fast
Stephen Robertson
Full name: Stephen Paul Robertson
Born: October 21, 1963, New Plymouth, Taranaki
Major teams: New Zealand U22, Central Districts
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm medium
Relation Brother - GK Robertson
Gary Robertson
Full name: Gary Keith Robertson
Born: July 15, 1960, New Plymouth, Taranaki
Major teams: New Zealand, Central Districts
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm fast-medium
Ted Meuli
Full name: Edgar Milton Meuli
Born: February 20, 1926, Hawera, Taranaki
Major teams: New Zealand, Auckland, Central Districts
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Legbreak
Martin Donnelly
Full name: Martin Paterson Donnelly
Born: October 17, 1917, Ngaruawahia, Waikato
Died: October 22, 1999
Major teams: New Zealand, Canterbury, Middlesex,Oxford University, Warwickshire, Wellington
Batting style: Left-hand bat
Bowling style: Slow left-arm orthodox
Martin Paterson Donnelly, who died on October 22, 1999, aged 82, left an indelible impression on cricket despite the brevity of his career. As a New Zealander at Oxford, he entranced cricket-followers in the immediate post-war years in a manner surpassed only by Compton. He proved that reality matched appearance with a magnificent double-century against England in the Lord's Test of 1949. C. B. Fry said he was as good a left-hander as any he had seen, including Clem Hill and Frank Woolley
