Matthew Henderson was a cricket

Cricket

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er who played for Wellington and New Zealand

New Zealand cricket team

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Henderson was a left-arm fast bowler and toured England with the 1927 team

New Zealand cricket team in England in 1927

The New Zealand cricket team toured England in the 1927 season. The team contained many of the players who would later play Test cricket for New Zealand, but the tour did not include any Test matches and the 1927 English cricket season was the last, apart from the Second World War years and the...

 under Tom Lowry

Tom Lowry

Thomas Coleman Lowry was a New Zealand cricketer. He played in the first seven Test matches that New Zealand ever played, captaining the team in all of them....

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 were played on this tour and Henderson took only 33 first-class wickets, his bowling, according to Wisden

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

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, lacking direction.

Henderson's only Test appearance was the first match ever played by New Zealand, against the MCC

Marylebone Cricket Club

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 team led by Harold Gilligan

Harold Gilligan

Alfred Herbert Harold Gilligan was a cricketer who played for Sussex and England. Gilligan captained England on their four-Test tour of New Zealand in 1929-30, which England won 1-0...

 at Christchurch

Christchurch

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in January 1930. He scored eight runs in the two innings and took two of the first three wickets to fall, plus one catch. But New Zealand lost in two days of cricket and he never played Test cricket again.