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Century acricketing milestone<br />
Alan Burgess is theworld’soldest<br />
survivingfirst classcricketer.<br />
He is not shouting the factfromthe<br />
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Instead,Alanisquietlycelebrating his<br />
100th birthday fromhis thirdstorey room<br />
at Charles Upham Retirement Village in<br />
Rangiora.<br />
Alan,who has lived in thevillage since<br />
April 2017,has beenbestowedthe honour<br />
of being the‘‘oldestsurviving’’ cricket<br />
player afterthe recent death of Indian<br />
player Vasant Raiji,who was also100.<br />
Alan played for<strong>Canterbury</strong>and the<br />
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He played at Lords, known as the home<br />
of cricket, threetimes, againstsuch<br />
players as Len Hutton, an English<br />
openingbatsmanofdistinction.<br />
Alanwas arighthanded batsman and<br />
leftarm bowler. He playedfor<br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong> from 1940 to 1952, though the<br />
war intervened, affecting his provincial<br />
cricketingcareer.<br />
He joinedthe armywhen he turned21<br />
in 1941 and servedinEgypt, as did<br />
Charles Upham, VC,afterwhomthe<br />
villageAlan now calls home is named.<br />
He servedinItalyasaShermantank<br />
driverinthe Tank Brigadeofthe 20th<br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong>Otago Battalion.<br />
Duringthe war, Alan drove atankas<br />
partofthe Italiancampaign andwatched<br />
the huge damage doneduringthe Battle<br />
of MonteCassino, withthe monastery<br />
suffering fromheavy bombingbyAllied<br />
forces.<br />
Americanplanes dropped1400 tonnes<br />
of bombsonthe historicabbey, which was<br />
later rebuilt.<br />
He returned to Monte Cassinoto<br />
commemorate a70threunion of someof<br />
those whoserved in 2004.<br />
He visitedVeniceinthe laterstages of<br />
war.Restaurants werestillopen,and a<br />
few beersweredrunk, he says.<br />
“That’s where we finished(thewar).”<br />
Thereare sad memoriesalso,<br />
especially of those who “walkedthrough<br />
that door” and didn’t come backfromthe<br />
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In 1945 he wassenttoEngland and<br />
played alongside VerdunScottand Roger<br />
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cricket teamthat played from<strong>July</strong>to<br />
Septemberthat year.<br />
He was abig fan of fellowcricketer<br />
Martin‘‘Squib’’ Donnelly.<br />
“Hewas my tank commander. There’s<br />
five in acrew,and Iwas the driver.<br />
“Hewas abrilliant (cricket) allrounder,<br />
oneofthe best we’veever had.’’<br />
Later, when Alan represented<br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong>,heplayed withTom Burtt,<br />
RayEmery and Roger Blunt.<br />
Beforemoving intoCharles Upham<br />
village,Alanand hiswifewere residents<br />
of Monck’s Spur, near Sumner,where<br />
there is aBurgess Streetnamed after<br />
Alan’s uncle, Charles Gordon Burgess.<br />
Thesedayshis mobilityissomewhat<br />
limited,giventhat his knees givehim<br />
trouble. Butheis still quick on his<br />
delivery when visitors pop in to see him.<br />
At his birthdaylast month,hekeptsome<br />
of the currentBlackCaps, who gavehim<br />
celebratory phone calls, ‘‘on therun’’with<br />
hisrepartee.<br />
Alan recalls someofthe wellknown<br />
sports reporters,including Dick<br />
BrittendenofThePress,considered New<br />
Zealand’s most prominent cricket writer<br />
in the day,and Larry Saunders,from the<br />
ChristchurchStar.<br />
He loves achat and enjoysrugbyand<br />
keeping an eyeonCrusaders player<br />
EthanBlackadder, ason of hisgreat<br />
nephewTodd Blackadder.<br />
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