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| Full name | Bevan Ernest Congdon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1938-02-11)11 February 1938 Motueka, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 10 February 2018(2018-02-10) (aged 79) Auckland, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 103) | 22 January 1965 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 24 August 1978 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 4) | 11 February 1973 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 17 July 1978 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1960/61–1970/71 | Central Districts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1971/72 | Wellington | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1972/73–1973/74 | Otago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1974/75–1977/78 | Canterbury | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bevan Ernest CongdonOBE (11 February 1938 – 10 February 2018) was a New Zealand cricketall-rounder who played 61Test matches and 11One Day Internationals from 1965 to 1978, which included a two-year spell as captain.[1]
Congdon was captain of the New Zealand Test and ODI team from 1972 to 1974, and was the first New Zealand captain to record a victory overAustralia.[2] Congdon was principally a batsman but also became a useful medium-pace bowler midway through his career. The Test captaincy brought out his best cricket: before becoming captain he had played 31 Tests and scored 1,569 runs at an average of 26.59 and had taken 12 wickets, but during his 17 Tests as captain he scored 1,067 runs at 41.03 and took 33 wickets.[3]
Congdon's finest moments in Tests included the tour ofEngland in 1973 when he scored 176 atTrent Bridge and 175 atLord's in successive Tests, and the determined foray by the Kiwis to theWest Indies in 1972, when he took over the captaincy fromGraham Dowling. In the Trent Bridge match, New Zealand chased 479 in the final innings, falling short by only 38 runs. At the time, this was a Test record for a highest score in the fourth innings to lose a match. The innings at Lord's contributed to New Zealand making 551, their highest score in Tests at the time.
In 1975, Congdon became the first New Zealand batsman to score an ODI century atBasin Reserve. The second one was scored byKane Williamson, 43 years later, on 6 January 2018 against Pakistan.
Asked afterwards how he prepared for Test cricket in his remote, intemperateSouth Island hometown, he replied that net pitches inMotueka prepared one for anything.
In the1975 New Year Honours, Congdon was appointed anOfficer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to cricket.[4]
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| Preceded by | New Zealand national cricket captain 1971/72–1976/77 | Succeeded by |