




New Plymouth High School Old Boys Cricket Club
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





