{"id":627471,"date":"2026-04-24T08:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627471\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:14:13","slug":"gisborne-boys-high-old-boy-mark-carrington-shone-at-local-and-national-cricket-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627471\/","title":{"rendered":"Gisborne Boys\u2018 High old boy Mark Carrington shone at local and national cricket level"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MarkMark Carrington in full flight.<\/p>\n

Carrington was later chosen to tour Australia with New Zealand, where he played a first-class match against Queensland and a one-day game against New South Wales. <\/p>\n

He played representative cricket for Poverty Bay (1977\u201383), Hamilton (1983\u201386) and Thames Valley (1987\u201391). <\/p>\n

Carrington and fellow Gisborne cricketer (the late) Roger Broughton were among the first players of M\u0101ori descent to represent Northern Districts. <\/p>\n

Gisborne Boys\u2019 High School principal Tom Cairns said Carrington was one of his heroes. <\/p>\n

\u201cI was a kid … he was 12 years older than me. He was big and he was fast.\u201d <\/p>\n

Cairns took issue with the description of Carrington as \u201cmedium-fast\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe was pretty rapid. He gave a few guys a hurry-up round here.\u201d <\/p>\n

Carrington also played in the First XV as a flanker, but he was fast enough to play on the wing, Cairns said. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a nephew, Lennon [Carrington], who was in the national champion Boys\u2019 High team in 2007, and Scott and Carl Baistow were also his nephews. When we played in Hamilton, he would come along and watch. He obviously followed the school.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a big man, quiet, and a very nice bloke … a very prominent old boy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Carrington in full flight. Carrington was later chosen to tour Australia with New Zealand, where he played…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[115070,617,1929,64,63,17405,20762,304128,740,55392,105297,261763,21694,38848,579,10413,322,611,621,64993,37804,21321,20637,304129,85],"class_list":["post-627471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-aged","tag-and","tag-at","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boy","tag-boys","tag-carrington","tag-cricket","tag-cricketer","tag-died","tag-districts","tag-former","tag-gisborne","tag-high","tag-level","tag-local","tag-mark","tag-national","tag-northern","tag-old","tag-poverty","tag-school","tag-shone","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}