and club cricket in Dunedin for Kaikorai during World War II―the Evening Star newspaper reporting that despite his age he was still bowling unchanged in club cricket for "close on three hours", his left-arm inswing deliveries still "pretty difficult to play". In his final first-class match he bowled 38 eight-ball overs and took three wickets, despite fracturing a toe whilst batting. Later life Allcott retired from club cricket in 1947 at over 50 years of age. He also played golf and entered the Auckland Open for the first time in 1957. He died at Auckland in 1973. He was aged 77. Notes References External links 1896 births 1973 deaths Auckland cricketers New Zealand Test cricketers Pre-1930 New Zealand representative cricketers New Zealand cricketers Otago cricketers People from the Tasman District Hawke's Bay cricketers North Island cricketers People educated at Marlborough Boys' College