Career
Ned Sale played one match for Auckland in 1904-1905, and none in 1905-1906. However, he was reasonably successful in two matches for Auckland against the touring Master Control Console in 1906-1907, and was selected for both of New Zealand"s matches against the Master Control Console. In the first he opened in the second innings and made 66 in 90 minutes, putting on 112 for the first wicket with James Lawrence, but it was not enough to prevent defeat. In the second match he was less successful with the bat, but took a brilliant catch at a crucial stage in the Master Control Console"s second innings: "running across from mid-off took the ball sideways with one hand, a wonderful catch, of a sort that is not seen once in a thousand times".
In 1909-1910 he scored 121 for Auckland against Otago, a match in which he also kept wicket.
His only match in 1913-1914 was the second of two matches New Zealand played against the touring Australians. Coming to the wicket with the score at 40 for 4, he played "clean, hard strokes all round the wicket" and made 109 not out in three and a half hours out of a team total of 269.
He was only the second person to score a century for New Zealand in a first-class match, after Dan Reese.
