Rupert Peter Owens Drysdale (born 7 January 1989) is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for Bay of Plenty and Northern Districts. After playing for the Bay of Plenty team in the Hawke Cup since the 2009/10 cricket season, Drysdale made his first-class cricket debut for Northern Districts in April 2022, in the penultimate match of the 2021–22 Plunket Shield season. Due to an outbreak of COVID-19 within the team, seven players made their first-class debuts for the team in the same match, with Drysdale doing so at the age of 33.
