Hugh Lusk (cricketer)

Hugh Butler Lusk (12 January 1866 – 26 February 1944) was a New Zealand cricketer and lawyer.

[2][3][4] He became Crown Solicitor for Hawke's Bay in 1902, succeeding another cricketer, Arthur Cotterill.

[7] Lusk made his first-class cricket debut for Auckland in 1889-90, playing five matches as a middle-order batsman and opening bowler.

Now captaining Hawke's Bay, he played a leading part in the match against Wellington in 1895-96, making 14 and 41 and taking 4 for 18 and 7 for 53.

[13] In the first match the next season Lusk scored his and Hawke's Bay's first century, 119 in a loss to Canterbury.