[1] Pritchard was a genuinely fast right-arm bowler and a useful lower order right-handed batsman who played in several matches for Wellington before the Second World War.

In 1951, his bowling, by now fast-medium rather than outright fast, played a big part in Warwickshire's unexpected County Championship success.

His last match was against Warwickshire, and as a batsman he was out first ball as part of a hat-trick by Keith Dollery.

[8][9] In March 2017 Pritchard became the third New Zealand first-class cricketer, after John Wheatley and Syd Ward, to reach 100 years of age.

[11] At the time of his death, he was New Zealand's oldest living first-class cricketer; that honour then passed to Alan Burgess.