Born in Christchurch, Strange took a wicket with his first ball in first-class cricket: in his second match, he ended Hawke's Bay's first innings by bowling the last batsman, Tom Dent, with his only delivery.
[3] Not until the 1988–89 season did another New Zealander (Stephen Hotter) take a wicket with his first ball in first-class cricket.
[6] Strange moved to Sydney in December 1904[7] and lived in Parramatta, where he married Meta Mance in January 1910.
[8] In 1932 he set up a business with Meta as a manufacturer's representative in Hobart,[9] but she died there in June 1934.
[10] He spent some years working as a book-keeper on a sheep station in the Riverina region of New South Wales[11] before returning to Sydney, where he died in September 1962, aged 83.