Bruce Blair - Wikipedia
- ️Fri Dec 27 1957
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Full name | Bruce Robert Blair | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 27 December 1957 (age 67) Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ODI debut (cap 41) | 17 February 1982 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 15 April 1986 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1976/77–1983/84 | Otago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1984/85–1985/86 | Northern Districts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1986/87–1989/90 | Otago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 11 May 2017 |
Bruce Robert Blair (born 27 December 1957) is a New Zealand former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Otago and Northern Districts between 1977 and 1990.[1] He played 14 One Day Internationals for the New Zealand national cricket team in the mid-1980s. He coached Northern Districts from 2001 to 2006 and was later a coaching services advisor at the New Zealand Academy of Sport in Hamilton. He was a selector for both Northern Districts and Central Districts.[2]
Blair was born at Dunedin and educated at Otago Boys High School.[2] His father, Roy Blair, played for Otago in 1953–54 and his older brother, Wayne, played first-class cricket for Otago from 1967–68 to 1990–91.[3] A great-uncle, James Blair, also played for the provincial side in 1926–27
- ^ Bruce Blair, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2022-04-30. (subscription required)
- ^ a b McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 20. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2
- ^ McCarron, op. cit., pp. 20–21.