PLAYER CAREER

Hedley Howarth

International career statistics, records and scorecard analysis

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Men

New Zealand1969–1977

39Internationals

309Career runs

0Centuries

97Wickets

Career records by format

Test

Official international career

Batting

Matches: 30
Innings: 42
Runs: 291
Average: 12.12
Strike rate: —
Highest score: 61
Not outs: 18
100s: 0
50s: 1
Ducks: 7
4s: —
6s: 0
Balls faced: —

Bowling

Matches: 30
Innings: 50
Balls: 8,833
Maidens: 393
Runs conceded: 3,178
Wickets: 86
Average: 36.95
Economy: 2.15
Strike rate: 102.70
Best innings: 5/34
Best match: 9/100
4 wickets: 5
5 wickets: 2
10 wickets: 0

Fielding

Matches: 30
Innings: 55
Catches: 33
Stumpings: 0
Dismissals: 33
Keeper catches: 0
Fielder catches: 33
Dismissals / inns: 0.600
Best innings: 3 (3ct 0st)

ODI

Official international career

Batting

Matches: 9
Innings: 5
Runs: 18
Average: 6.00
Strike rate: 69.23
Highest score: 11
Not outs: 2
100s: 0
50s: 0
Ducks: 1
4s: —
6s: —
Balls faced: 26

Bowling

Matches: 9
Innings: 8
Balls: 492
Maidens: —
Runs conceded: 280
Wickets: 11
Average: 25.45
Economy: 3.41
Strike rate: 44.72
Best innings: 3/29
Best match: 3/29
4 wickets: 0
5 wickets: 0
10 wickets: —

Fielding

Matches: 9
Innings: 9
Catches: 3
Stumpings: 0
Dismissals: 3
Keeper catches: 0
Fielder catches: 3
Dismissals / inns: 0.333
Best innings: 1 (1ct 0st)

Career records checked: 2026-09-07. — means not recorded; N/A means the statistic does not apply. Career totals are independent of the scorecard archive.

Explore this player’s available match data

38 match appearances in available scorecards. Filters below apply to this archive only.

Recent available appearances


Date	Match	Format	Result
1977-02-25	Australia v New Zealand	Test	Australia won by 10 wickets
1977-02-18	Australia v New Zealand	Test	Match drawn
1976-02-05	India v New Zealand	Test	Match drawn
1976-01-24	India v New Zealand	Test	India won by 8 wickets
1975-06-18	New Zealand v West Indies	ODI	West Indies won by 5 wickets
1975-06-14	India v New Zealand	ODI	New Zealand won by 4 wickets
1975-06-11	England v New Zealand	ODI	England won by 80 runs
1975-03-09	England v New Zealand	ODI	No result
1975-03-08	England v New Zealand	ODI	No result
1975-02-28	England v New Zealand	Test	Match drawn
1975-02-20	England v New Zealand	Test	England won by inns & 83 runs
1974-03-22	Australia v New Zealand	Test	Australia won by 297 runs

New Zealand

THE SHAPE OF A CAREER

Performance by year

Available scorecards

Formats are shown separately. These totals cover published scorecards against the twelve national teams; they can differ from complete official career records.

Test

Runs by seasonTest · annual total

Wickets by seasonTest · annual total

Exact yearly figures · 8 seasons

Test archive totals by year
Year	Mat	Bat inns	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	50s	4s	BF	Bowl inns	Wkts	Bowl avg	Econ	Bowl SR
1977	2	4	72	61	18.00	40.90	1	9	176	3	2	73.50	3.24	136.00
1976	2	3	9	8	9.00	—	0	—	—	3	5	32.00	2.13	90.00
1975	2	3	22	9	7.33	33.33	0	4	66	2	2	94.00	2.20	256.00
1974	3	4	32	29	16.00	25.39	0	3	126	4	5	63.00	2.77	136.00
1973	5	7	62	17	31.00	—	0	—	—	8	17	39.41	2.15	109.52
1972	5	4	24	16	8.00	—	0	—	—	10	14	50.21	2.07	144.85
1971	2	3	27	25	13.50	27.00	0	3	100	4	5	28.20	2.07	81.60
1969	9	14	43	17	6.14	—	0	—	—	16	36	23.72	1.95	72.80

ODI

Runs by seasonODI · annual total

Wickets by seasonODI · annual total

Exact yearly figures · 2 seasons

ODI archive totals by year
Year	Mat	Bat inns	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s	BF	Bowl inns	Wkts	Bowl avg	Econ	Bowl SR
1975	5	3	12	11	6.00	70.58	0	0	—	—	17	4	5	30.80	4.12	44.80
1973	3	2	6	5	6.00	66.66	0	0	1	0	9	3	3	32.33	2.96	65.33

MOMENTS IN THE RECORD

Career timeline

Milestones found in available scorecards. The first recorded appearance here is not necessarily the international debut.

1969-07-24
First available scorecard
Test v England · Lord's
1969-10-03
Best recorded bowling · 5/34
Test v India · Nagpur
1977-02-18
Highest recorded innings · 61 runs
Test v Australia · Christchurch
1977-02-25
Latest available scorecard
Test v Australia · Auckland