page_title: Ernest Currie
section_title: Cricket career
hierarchical_section_title: Ernest Currie / Cricket career
caption_attribution_description: English: Queensland rugby union team photo The Queenslander, 8 July 1899 page 73 Front: Kent, Boland, Tanner, Currie, A J Colton.Middle: Gralton, Graham, McCowan, T Colton Back: Evans, Carew, Ward, Austin, Corfe, Dixon.
context_page_description: Ernest William Currie was a New Zealand-born rugby union international for Australia and a first-class cricketer.
context_section_description: Currie, who was born in Dunedin, represented Otago in six first-class cricket matches during the 1894/95 and 1893/94 New Zealand cricket seasons, as a wicket-keeper. He was regarded as one of New Zealand's best wicket-keepers of his time, "a lightning hand behind the sticks".
  After moving to Australia, he appeared in one further first-class match for Queensland, against New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1899.
caption: Currie shown front row 2nd from right,[4] after the 1 July Queensland match against the 1899 British Lions.[5]
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