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Kevin Burns (cricketer)

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Kevin Burns
Personal information
Full name
Kevin James Burns
Born(1960-07-07)7 July 1960
Invercargill, New Zealand
Died20 May 2024(2024-05-20) (aged 63)
Queenstown, New Zealand
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RoleBatsman
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1977/78–1991/92Southland
1980/81–1991/92Otago
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 58 31
Runs scored 2,729 497
Batting average 29.03 18.40
100s/50s 3/16 0/3
Top score 136 54*
Catches/stumpings 30/– 5/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 24 May 2024

Kevin James Burns (7 July 1960 – 20 May 2024) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played 58 first-class and 31 List A matches, all but one of them for Otago, between the 1980–81 and 1991–92 seasons.[1]

Burns was born at Invercargill in 1960.[2] He played for Southland in a December 1977 Hawke Cup match against Central Otago at Balclutha, and went on to play a total of 28 Hawke Cup matches for the side, with his final appearance in 1992. He captained Southland when they held the Hawke Cup between 1989 and 1992.[3] He played for Otago age-group sides before making his representative debut for the senior Otago side in December 1980 against Wellington at Molyneux Park in Alexandra.[4]

Primarily a batsman, Burns played in a total of 58 first-class matches and scored a total of 2,729 runs at a batting average of 29.03 runs per innings, including three centuries.[4] He set new record partnerships for Otago for the second wicket―putting on 254 runs batting with Ken Rutherford against Wellington in 1987/88―and for the fourth wicket―a partnership of 235 with Richard Hoskin against Northern Districts during the same season.[2] He played one match for a New Zealand XI against the touring England side, opening the batting in a match played between the first and second Test matches of a three match Test series in early 1988, but never played international cricket for New Zealand.[4] He played in 31 List A matches for Otago, scoring 497 runs, and made his final appearance for the provincial side in a January 1992 first-class fixture.[4]

Burns and his wife Lynne had three children. He died of cancer at his home in Queenstown, on 20 May 2024, at the age of 63.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Kevin Burns". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  2. ^ a b McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 27. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2
  3. ^ "Why you should care about the Hawke Cup". Southland Sport. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d Kevin Burns, CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 May 2023. (subscription required)
  5. ^ "'Integral' Otago batter dies". Otago Daily Times. 22 May 2024. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
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