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| Born | (1951-02-21) 21 February 1951 (age 73) Dannevirke, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bowling | Legbreak googly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 124) | 2 February 1973 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 26 December 1980 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 17) | 31 March 1974 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 3 February 1981 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1971–1975 | Worcestershire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1972/73–1983/84 | Northern Districts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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John Morton Parker (born 21 February 1951) is a former New Zealand international cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1971 and 1984. He captained New Zealand in the third Test against Pakistan in 1976–77.
Parker played cricket in England when young, and helped Imran Khan at this time. He was the youngest of three brothers to play first-class cricket, the other two being Kenneth and Murray Parker.
He played 36 Test matches and 24 One Day International for New Zealand. Parker scored three Test hundreds and 21 first-class hundreds in a career that spanned 14 years.
References
- ^ John Parker, CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 November 2023. (subscription required)
- Kelly F (2016) Schoolboy Imran, The Cricket Monthly, CricInfo, August 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
- McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, pp. 103–104. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2 (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.)
External links
Media related to John Parker (New Zealand cricketer) at Wikimedia Commons- John Parker at ESPNcricinfo
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