Arthur Blacklock was a solid batsman, "very hard to dispose of".
[1] He played his first first-class match when he was 16 or 17, top-scoring with 22 in Wellington's first innings against Nelson in 1884–85.
[3] In 1894-95 he scored 222 runs in three first-class matches at an average of 37.00, putting him second in the season's national aggregates.
[5] However, he played only one more match of first-class cricket after that season.
Blacklock worked for a number of retail and manufacturing firms, and was joint manager of Ross and Glendining at the time of his retirement two years before his death in 1934 at the age of 66.