Charles Hickey

Charles Ernest Henry Hickey (10 April 1880 – 9 June 1919) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Wellington from 1903 to 1910.

Personal life Hickey was born in Wellington, the son of a prominent local journalist and editor, M. C. Hickey. He became a businessman in Wellington. She died on 27 May 1909 after a short illness. He died after an illness in June 1919. Their daughter survived them.

Cricket career Hickey was a slow leg-spin bowler who was prominent in Wellington club cricket for the Phoenix and East clubs in the years before the First World War.

His best first-class bowling figures were 4 for 50 and 3 for 36 in Wellington's victory over Canterbury in 1909-10. In a two-day non-first-class match between Wellington and Nelson in Wellington in December 1902, Hickey, bowling unchanged throughout the first innings, took 9 for 27, puzzling the Nelson batsmen with his slow leg-breaks. His batting was seldom productive, but he did score 35 to give Wellington a chance of victory in the Plunket Shield match against Auckland in 1910-11.