Ata Matatumua
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| Full name | Ata Mamea Matatumua | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
28 September 1940 Apia, Western Samoa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1967–1968 | Otago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 16 June 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ata Mamea Matatumua (born 28 September 1940) is a former Samoan cricketer who played in New Zealand domestic competitions in the 1960s. His first-class career consisted of eight matches for Otago.
Life
A graduate of Samoa College,[1] Matatumua is first recorded as playing in New Zealand during the 1960–61 season, when he appeared for a Wanganui district team in the Hawke Cup. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pacer, he played for the Otago under-23s during the 1963–64 season,[2] but did not make his first-class debut until the 1966–67 season, in the Plunket Shield.[3] On debut against Auckland in January 1967, Matatumua took 2/61 and 1/31 opening the bowling with another non-New Zealander, Barbadian Rudi Webster. Coming in eighth in the batting order, he made 24 in the first innings and a duck in the second, dismissed by future Test spinner Hedley Howarth in both instances.[4]
Matatumua went on to feature in Otago's final two matches of the 1966–67 season, and all of its matches in the 1967–68 season.[3] Still batting at number eight, in the opening match of the latter season, against Wellington, he scored 69 runs, his only first-class half-century.[5] In the next match, a home fixture against Auckland at Dunedin's Carisbrook ground, Matatumua took career-best figures of 3/38 in the first innings, including the wickets of Test players Terry Jarvis and Graham Vivian.[6] He finished the season with eight wickets at average of 34.75, behind only three players for Otago – Jack Alabaster (27 wickets), Gren Alabaster (19 wickets), and Rudi Webster (nine wickets).[7]
See also
References
- ↑ List of Samoa College Students by Year of Entrance Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. – Samoa College History Project. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
- ↑ Miscellaneous matches played by Ata Matatumua – CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
- 1 2 First-class matches played by Ata Matatumua – CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
- ↑ Auckland v Otago, Plunket Shield 1966/67
- ↑ Wellington v Otago, Plunket Shield 1967/68 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
- ↑ Otago v Auckland, Plunket Shield 1967/68 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
- ↑ Bowling for Otago, Plunket Shield 1967/68 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 July 2015.