Alex Moir
Alexander McKenzie Moir (17 July 1919 – 17 June 2000) played 17 Test matches for the New Zealand national cricket team in the 1950s as a leg-spinner and lower-order batsman.
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| Born | 17 July 1919 Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 17 June 2000 (aged 80) Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Legbreak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 53) | 17 March 1951 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 14 March 1959 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Domestic career
In 1953/54 Moir took 15 for 203 for Otago against Central Districts at Pukekura Park, New Plymouth.[1] After making his first-class debut at 30, in 54 matches for Otago from 1949-50 to 1961-62 he took 282 wickets at an average of 21.01.
International career
On his Test debut, he took six wickets in the first innings against England in Christchurch in 1951.[2]
He is one of only two bowlers to have bowled consecutive overs in a Test innings; this occurred on 28 March 1951, the fourth day of the Wellington Test, on either side of the tea interval.[3] The other recorded instance of this violation of the Laws of cricket in a Test match was in 1921, the bowler being Warwick Armstrong.
References
- Central Districts v Otago 1953-54
- "1st Test: New Zealand v England at Christchurch, Mar 17-21, 1951". espncricinfo. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
- Martin-Jenkins, C. (1983) The Cricketer Book of Cricket Disasters and Bizarre Records, Century Publishing: London. ISBN 07126 0191 0.