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| Full name | Jeffrey John Crowe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1958-09-14)14 September 1958 (age 66) Auckland, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 151) | 4 March 1983 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 19 March 1990 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 42) | 9 January 1983 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 11 March 1990 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1977/78–1981/82 | South Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1982/83–1991/92 | Auckland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jeffrey John Crowe (born 14 September 1958) is a former New Zealandcricketer. He playedTest andOne Day International cricket forNew Zealand from 1983 to 1990, andfirst-class cricket forSouth Australia and thenAuckland.
He has been anICCmatch referee since 2004.
Crowe was born inAuckland, New Zealand. He is the son ofDave Crowe, and the elder brother ofMartin Crowe. The Crowe brothers are cousins ofOscar-winning actorRussell Crowe, whose father John Alexander Crowe is the brother of Dave Crowe; their grandfather John Doubleday Crowe, emigrated to New Zealand fromWrexham in Wales. He is also the great-grandson of All BlackFrancis Jervis (his mother's maternal grandfather).
Crowe's father played in three first-class cricket matches forCanterbury andWellington between 1953 and 1957.
Crowe began his first-class cricket career atSouth Australia, where he played from 1977–78 to 1981–82. There was a suggestion that he could play for theAustralian cricket team, but he returned to New Zealand in 1982–83 to play for Auckland, with the hope of playing for New Zealand instead. He worked on hisfielding, and also occasionallykept wicket.
After a benefit season at Auckland in 1990–91, and one more domestic season, he retired from playing professional cricket at the end of the 1991–92 season.
He was born just over 4 years before his younger brother Martin, but he made his Test debut for New Zealand in the First Test againstSri Lanka atChristchurch in March 1983, just over a year after his brother. He scored his maiden Test century (128) in the Third Test againstEngland in Auckland in February 1984.
Playing against the dominantWest Indies team in 1984–85, his team was following on 225 runs in arrears in the Fourth Test atSabina Park inKingston, Jamaica, in May 1985. Crowe went in at number 3 in the second innings, with the score at 1–13. Against a fierce fast bowling attack that includedCourtney Walsh,Malcolm Marshall andJoel Garner, he scored his second Test century (112); but despite his heroics, New Zealand still lost by 10 wickets.[1]
He was captain of the New Zealand cricket team for six Tests – a one-off Test against Sri Lanka atColombo in April 1987 (when he scored the third and last of his Test centuries, 120 not out in a drawn match) and then three on tour to Australia in December 1987, and finally two at home against England in February 1988. One of the matches against Australia was lost, and the other five were drawn. Crowe played his last Test against Australia atWellington in March 1990. He also played in 75 ODIs from 1983 to 1990, including theCricket World Cups inEngland in 1983 and inIndia in 1987.
Crowe was manager of theNew Zealand cricket team from 1999 to 2003. He ran a golfing holiday business in Florida for a period, and since 2004 he has been anICCmatch referee, including the World Cup finals in 2007 and 2011. He is one of three people to have been referee in more than 75 Tests (the others areChris Broad andRanjan Madugalle) and one of four to have been referee in more than 220 ODIs (as well as Crowe, Broad, and Madugalle, the fourth isRoshan Mahanama). In January 2017 he refereed his 250th ODI match, when he officiated the fifth ODI betweenAustralia and Pakistan at theAdelaide Oval.[2]
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