Full name Edmund Vernon Sale Relations Vernon Sale (son) Name Ned Sale | Batting style Right-handed 1894-95 to 1914-15 Auckland | |
Born 6 July 1883 ( 1883-07-06 ) Taunton, England Died 16 November 1918(1918-11-16) (aged 35)
Auckland, New Zealand | ||
Edmund Vernon "Ned" Sale (6 July 1883 – 16 November 1918) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Auckland from 1905 to 1915, and played four times for New Zealand in the days before New Zealand played Test cricket.
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Cricket career
Ned Sale played one match for Auckland in 1904-05, and none in 1905-06. However, he was reasonably successful in two matches for Auckland against the touring MCC in 1906-07, and was selected for both of New Zealand's matches against the MCC. In the first he opened in the second innings and made 66 in 90 minutes, putting on 112 for the first wicket with James Lawrence, but it was not enough to prevent defeat. In the second match he was less successful with the bat, but took a brilliant catch at a crucial stage in the MCC's second innings: "running across from mid-off [Sale] took the ball sideways with one hand, a wonderful catch, of a sort that is not seen once in a thousand times". New Zealand went on to win by 56 runs and square the series.
In 1909-10 he scored 121 for Auckland against Otago, a match in which he also kept wicket. His only match in 1913-14 was the second of two matches New Zealand played against the touring Australians. Coming to the wicket with the score at 40 for 4, he played "clean, hard strokes all round the wicket" and made 109 not out in three and a half hours out of a team total of 269. He was only the second person to score a century for New Zealand in a first-class match, after Dan Reese.
Personal life
He was a dentist in Auckland. He died in Auckland at the age of 35, a victim of the influenza epidemic of 1918.
His son Vernon played as a batsman for Auckland in the 1930s.