Wayne Blair (cricketer)

Wayne Blair
Personal information
Full name Wayne Leslie Blair
Born 11 May 1948 (1948-05-11) (age 70)
Dunedin
Batting Left-handed
Relations Bruce Blair (brother)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1967–1991 Otago
Career statistics
Competition FC List A
Matches 82 31
Runs scored 3698 745
Batting average 26.04 24.03
100s/50s 2/15 2/1
Top score 140 108
Balls bowled 30 –
Wickets 0 –
Bowling average – –
5 wickets in innings – –
10 wickets in match – n/a
Best bowling – –
Catches/stumpings 66/2 12/0
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 19 September 2014

Wayne Leslie Blair (born 11 May 1948 in Dunedin) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Otago from 1967 to 1991.

Blair made his first-class debut for Otago in 1967-68 as an opening batsman. He played all that season and all the next, reaching 50 only once, when he scored 83 in the last match of the 1968-69 season.[1] He moved down the order in 1969-70, keeping wicket in one match and winning selection in a New Zealand Under-23 team against the touring Australians, when he top-scored in the second innings with 40.[2] He returned to the opening position and produced a number of useful but not large scores up to the end of the 1973-74 season.

After a time out of first-class cricket he returned to the Otago team in 1977-78 and maintained his place. He made his first century in the match against Canterbury in 1980-81, batting at number four. After Canterbury declared at 409 for 5, Otago were dismissed for 224 (Blair top-scoring with 88) and, following on, 266 (Blair again top-scoring with 140).[3] His other century came the following season, when he scored 132 out of a total of 274 against Wellington.[4]

He left first-class cricket after the 1982-83 season, but was recalled in 1990-91 at the age of 42 as a middle-order batsman. He reached a score of at least 40 in each of the first three matches, but finished with 165 runs at an average of 18.33 in five matches.[5] That was his last season in first-class cricket.

In domestic List A cricket he won the man of the match award when he scored 102 against Wellington in 1979-80.[6]

His younger brother, Bruce, played one-day internationals for New Zealand in the 1980s.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Central Districts v Otago 1968-69". CricketArchive.
  2. ↑ "New Zealand Under-23s v Australians 1969-70". CricketArchive.
  3. ↑ "Canterbury v Otago 1980-81". CricketArchive.
  4. ↑ "Wellington v Otago 1981-82". CricketArchive.
  5. ↑ "Wayne Blair batting by season". CricketArchive.
  6. ↑ "Otago v Wellington 1979-80". CricketArchive.
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