He wrote Ian Smith’s biography, was selected for the Black Caps and has raised over $1 million to benefit underprivileged children through the cricket charity he founded. Roger delights in having designed the motifs for both club and country: he created the Black Caps’ silver fern emblem, as it now appears, during his advertising agency days and gave NSCC’s three scimitars emblem its current incarnation too. And he is never far from the boundary, home or away, at his beloved local club or watching the national side.
Dacre Pavilion at the club, he is its past chairman, unofficial historian, designer, reporter and life member. He proudly orchestrated the naming of the C.C. Synonymous with North Shore Cricket Club, Roger has a history that’s as rich as the club itself. If the term ‘cricket tragic’ were to have a Kiwi face, there are few who would wear it as well as Roger. It just so happens to be Roger Brittenden’s.
Roger Brittenden sat down for a conversation with Heather Barker Vermeer at North Shore Cricket Club on a sunny spring morning, with one eye on the groundsmen readying the wickets for the season ahead…ĭid you hear the one about the promising provincial rugby player who switched his boots for ballet shoes, before getting a call up for the Black Caps at the age of 40? It’s an unlikely tale.
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