First Class Cricket Career
Wadsworth scored over 1,000 runs and dismissed nearly 100 batsmen as New Zealand's regular wicket-keeper between 1969–70 and 1975–76. He toured England in 1969 and 1973. From the outset he was always a talented wicket keeper and over time he also developed greater consistency. An aggressive batsman, whose impetuosity often cost him his wicket, he could also defend stubbornly when the situation demanded. He made his first class debut for Central Districts v Wellington as a batsman in a Plunket Shield match at Basin Reserve in December 1968 aged 21. He made his maiden first class century for South Island at Dunedin against the touring West Indian side, also keeping wicket for the first time at that level.
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