Richard Torrance
Richard Torrance was a New Zealand cricket umpire and player. He stood in one Test match, New Zealand vs. England, in 1933. He played 42 first-class matches for Otago between 1905 and 1928.
Torrance served in Europe with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the First World War as a private.
An accurate left-arm opening bowler, Torrance's best first-class figures were 7 for 21 against Southland in 1919-20. He bowled unchanged through both innings, finishing with match figures of 23.3–8–41–11. His best match figures were 42–11–93–14 against Hawke's Bay in 1908-09. He sometimes made useful runs in the lower order, as when in 1925-26 he scored 28 against Canterbury, adding 105 for the last wicket with Reginald Cherry, who was thus able to make his only first-class century. In club cricket, which he played in Dunedin until 1931, he played as an all-rounder.
Torrance umpired eight first-class matches in New Zealand between 1932 and 1938, including the First Test in 1932-33.
