Career
Born in Busselton, a mid-sized town in the south-west region of Western Australia, House was a talented schoolboy cricketer, captaining a representative Australian Schools team on a tour to India during the 1966-1967 season. He made his debut at state level during the 1972-1973 season, having previously also played for a Western Australia Country team against the touring English cricket team House made his first-class debut in that season"s Sheffield Shield, in a match against Victoria at the WACA Ground.
A leg-spinner and competent lower-order batsman, he and Paul Nicholls worked in tandem as Western Australia"s spinners during the match.
House took only one wicket in the match (that of Graham Yallop in Victoria"s second innings), but in Western Australia"s second innings he scored 70 not out, his highest first-class score and only half-century. House played a further three matches for Western Australia (two during the rest of the 1972-1973 season and one the following season), but Bob Paulsen was generally the state"s first-choice spinner, and he transferred to South Australia for the following season.
Though hoping to gain more regular selection, he only played twice at first-class level for South Australia—once against Queensland and once against England on its 1974-1975 tour of Australia. After retiring from playing, House served in various coaching and administrative roles in the Northern Territory, including head coach of the Northern Territory Institute of Sport"s cricket program and chairman of selectors of Northern Territory Cricket.
