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Arthur "Dick" Staples (8 January 1878 – 13 August 1954) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played in four first-class matches for Wellington from 1901 to 1904.

Staples was born in Wellington. He attended Wellington College and worked in Wellington as a bootmaker.

Staples had a reputation in Wellington cricket as a "stonewaller" – an unadventurous, careful batsman. He was Wellington's most successful batsman on their short northern tour of December 1903. He was their top scorer in the first match, a loss to Hawke's Bay, when he opened in the first innings and scored 78 in four and a half hours; in the second innings he went in at number six and made 31 not out. He was the highest scorer on either side in the second match, when Wellington defeated Auckland, making 67 in three and three-quarter hours in the first innings. With 212 runs at an average of 42.40, he was the third-highest run-getter in the New Zealand season. However, he played no further first-class matches.

References

1. "Dick Staples". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
2. "Dick Staples". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
3. Tony McCarron, New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64 – 2010, ACS, Cardiff, 2010, p. 125.
4. "South v. Waiwetu". NZ Truth: 3. 22 January 1910.
5. "Out Door Sports and Pastimes". Free Lance: 17. 13 December 1913.
6. T. W. Reese, New Zealand Cricket: 1841–1914, Simpson & Williams, Christchurch, 1927, p. 425.
7. "Hawke's Bay v Wellington 1903–04". Cricinfo. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
8. Reese, p. 428.
9. "Auckland v Wellington 1903–04". Cricinfo. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
10. "First-class Batting and Fielding in New Zealand for 1903/04". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 December 2023.

External links

• Dick Staples at ESPNcricinfo

• 1878 births
• 1954 deaths
• New Zealand cricketers
• Wellington cricketers
• Cricketers from Wellington City
• People educated at Wellington College, Wellington