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Kōrero: Sports reporting and commentating

Report of Wellington cricket match, 1860

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Report of Wellington cricket match, 1860

This account of a cricket match between the Wellington Hero Cricket Club and Wellington appeared in the Wellington Independent the day after the game. The full description and lyrical writing were typical of the coverage of local cricket games at the time.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

National Library of New Zealand, Papers Past

Reference: Wellington Independent, 10 January 1860, p. 3

Permission of the National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Keith Quinn, Sports reporting and commentating – Newspapers to 1930, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/document/40075/report-of-wellington-cricket-match-1860 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Keith Quinn, i tāngia i te 30 November 2012.