David Collins (New Zealand cricketer)
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Full name | David Charles Collins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Wellington, New Zealand | 1 October 1887||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 2 January 1967 Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand | (aged 79)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Occasional wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: [1], 1 May 2009 |
Dr David Charles Collins (1 October 1887 – 2 January 1967) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played 53 first-class matches between 1905–06 and 1926–27, the bulk of these being for Wellington in New Zealand and Cambridge University in England; he won a blue for Cambridge and headed their batting averages in 1910.[1]
After leaving Cambridge, he returned to New Zealand, where his most successful years were with Wellington in the 1920s. It was during this decade that he scored four of his six first-class centuries, including the largest (and his last), 172 against Auckland in the 1924–25 Plunket Shield.[2]
Collins represented New Zealand during the MCC tour of 1922–23. At Christchurch he scored 102,[3] while at the Basin Reserve, as captain, he hit a second-innings 69.[4]
His father William Collins and his uncle John Collins had brief first-class careers. His cousin A. E. J. Collins held the world batting record for 116 years to January 2016 for his innings of 628 not out.[5] His daughter Susie Collins was the New Zealand women's golf champion in the 1930s.[6]
References
- ^ Obituary, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1968, p. 999.
- ^ "Auckland v Wellington in 1924/25". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 May 2009.
- ^ "New Zealand v Marylebone Cricket Club in 1922/23". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 May 2009.
- ^ "New Zealand v Marylebone Cricket Club in 1922/23". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 May 2009.
- ^ The Collins Cousins Cricket Story Retrieved 19 December 2014.
- ^ "A Fine Start". Evening Post: 6. 11 November 1938. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
External links
- David Collins at CricketArchive (subscription required)
- David Collins at ESPNcricinfo
- 1887 births
- 1967 deaths
- New Zealand cricketers
- Wellington cricketers
- Pre-1930 New Zealand representative cricketers
- People educated at Wellington College (New Zealand)
- Cambridge University cricketers
- Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
- Free Foresters cricketers
- Oxford and Cambridge Universities cricketers
- New Zealand cricket biography, 1880s birth stubs