Kevin Burns (cricketer)
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| Full name | Kevin James Burns | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 July 1960 Invercargill, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 20 May 2024 (aged 63) Queenstown, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1977/78–1991/92 | Southland | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1980/81–1991/92 | Otago | |||||||||||||||||||||
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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
[edit]- ^ "Kevin Burns". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Why you should care about the Hawke Cup". Southland Sport. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
- ^ a b c d Kevin Burns, CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 May 2023. (subscription required)
- ^ "'Integral' Otago batter dies". Otago Daily Times. 22 May 2024. Retrieved 23 May 2024.