Eric Tindall (pictured above with Piri Weepu on his 99th birthday) has sadly died, just a few months short of a century.
Eric Tindall is a New Zealand sporting legend. He was a double All Black, playing one rugby test against England in 1936, and five cricket tests either side of World War II. Not content with that achievement, Tindall subsequently refereed test match rugby, and umpired test match cricket; surely, a unique achievement in New Zealand sporting history. Until his death, Tindall was also the oldest surviving test cricketer, and the oldest surviving All Black.
You can read Mark Geenty's obituary for Eric Tindall here. We send our sincere condolences to his family.
5 comments:
RIP Eric
An icon of NZ sport has passed on.
A legend. Sadly gone. Lets hope he continues to be remembered
A good point Anton - how many remember double All Black of the same era W.N. (Bill) Carson who was killed in the war.
Not content to enjoy the games by playing but then gave his time to refereing and umpiring. A truly remarkable man, a little sad to be out on 99, such irony.
I am sure we will never see such a record again.
RIP.
GD - jeff Wilson proved how it is impossible to mix Rugby and Cricket at
international or even first class levels these days.
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