Lou Joel was born in Dunedin and was educated there at Otago Boys' High School.
[2] Jack Harkness had been named in the side but was injured in an accident, and Joel, who was in Auckland on business, filled the gap on the second day of the match as a full substitute after Otago had batted one short in the first innings.
[1] He later served on the Otago Cricket Association, including some time as president,[7] and stood as a first-class umpire.
[1] Later he co-founded a construction business with the McLellan brothers (William, James, and Duncan), which became one of Dunedin's most successful companies.
It was involved in the construction of many major civic structures in Otago and Southland, among them King Edward Technical College, Dunedin's St Paul's Cathedral, the Physics block of the University of Otago, and the former Southland Hospital in Invercargill.