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| Full name | David John Gatenby | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1952-02-12) 12 February 1952 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm leg break, googly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Peter Gatenby (brother) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1972/73 | Canterbury | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1978/79 | Tasmania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FC debut | 23 December 1972 Canterbury v Otago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last FC | 24 February 1979 Tasmania v New South Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Only LA | 3 December 1972 Canterbury v Otago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 15 August 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
David John Gatenby OAM (born 12 February 1952) is an Australian cricketer and farmer. He played cricket in Australia for Tasmania and in New Zealand for Canterbury. He was a right-handed batsman and leg-spin bowler.
Born in Launceston, Gatenby attended Scotch College there, then studied at Lincoln College in Christchurch in the early 1970s, earning a Diploma of Agriculture.[1][2] While there he played a season of five first-class matches and one one-day match for Canterbury in the New Zealand cricket season of 1972–73.[3] He returned to Tasmania, and played four first-class matches in the 1978–79 season.[4]
Gatenby runs a sheep farming property near Campbell Town. He was the president of the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association from 2008 to 2013. He was later a member of the Heritage Council of Tasmania, and the Tasmanian Forest Practices Board.[2] He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for his services to farming in the 2025 Australia Day Honours.[5]
References
- McCarron, Tony (2010). New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-905138-98-2. Retrieved 18 May 2026.
- "Get Farming: David Gatenby new head of TFGA". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- "Otago v Canterbury 1972-73". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 May 2026.
- "First-Class Matches played by David Gatenby". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 May 2026.
- Lisson, Bronwyn (26 January 2025). "Long-serving TasFarmers president awarded Order of Australia Medal". Tasmanian Country. Retrieved 18 May 2025.