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Melville Pengelly

Melville Pengelly

New Zealand cricket umpire

Melville Francis "Pen" Pengelly (17 March 1901 – 24 September 1973) was a New Zealand cricket umpire. He stood in four Test matches between 1946 and 1952.[1]

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Pengelly attended Christ's College, Christchurch,[2] and played senior club cricket in Christchurch for St Albans.[3][4] He took up umpiring in the 1930s and umpired 19 first-class matches between 1937 and 1955, most of them in Wellington.[5] He umpired the first two Test matches in New Zealand after the Second World War: in Wellington in March 1946 and in Christchurch in March 1947, as well as two other Tests in 1951 and 1952.[5]

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  1. [1]
    "Melville Pengelly". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  2. [2]
    "Annual Sports". The Sun: 5. 15 October 1920.
  3. [3]
    "The Averages". Press: 13. 31 March 1930.
  4. [4]
    "Short Runs and Byes". Star: 9. 7 November 1930.
  5. [5]
    "Pen Pengelly as Umpire in First-Class Matches". CricketArchive. Retrieved 6 August 2021.


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