Norman Giddy

Norman Hoskins Giddy (13 June 1876 – 28 July 1909) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Border from 1898 to 1904.

Norman Giddy
Personal information
Full name
Norman Hoskins Giddy
Born(1876-06-13)13 June 1876
King William's Town, Cape Colony
Died28 July 1909(1909-07-28) (aged 33)
Cape Town, Cape Colony
RelationsLennox Giddy (brother)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1897–98 to 1903–04Border
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 8
Runs scored 114
Batting average 8.14
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 21
Balls bowled 0
Wickets –
Bowling average –
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling –
Catches/stumpings 9/–
Source: Cricinfo, 11 November 2017

The most notable performance of Giddy's cricket career came in a two-day non-first-class match in January 1899 for a Border XV against Lord Hawke's XI. It was the seventh match of Lord Hawke's XI's tour, and none of the local batsmen in the first six matches had reached 50 in an innings. After Border had made 84 in their first innings and conceded a first-innings lead of 210, Giddy went to the wicket at number nine in the second innings and in three quarters of an hour he made 66, hitting several balls out of the ground, out of a team total of 147.[1][2]

Giddy worked as a customs clerk in Cape Town, where he died of pneumonia in July 1909, aged 33. He was unmarried.[3]

References
  1. Pelham Warner, "Cricket in South Africa", Chapter 14 in Horace G. Hutchinson, Cricket, George Newnes, London, 1903.
  2. "Border v Lord Hawke's XI 1898–99". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  3. "Cape Province, South Africa, Civil Deaths, 1895–1972". Ancestry.com.au. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
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