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Full name Bernard Lance Cairns
Born October 10, 1949, Picton, Marlborough
Current age 58 years 288 days
Major teams New Zealand,Central Districts,Durham,Minor Counties,Northern Districts,Otago
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast
Relations Son - CL Cairns
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
6s
Ct
St
Tests
43
65
8
928
64
16.28
0
2
28
30
0
ODIs
78
65
6
987
60
16.72
941
104.88
0
2
19
0
First-class
148
226
25
4165
110
20.72
1
23
89
0
List A
130
114
10
1885
95
18.12
0
9
37
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
43
72
10628
4280
130
7/74
10/144
32.92
2.41
81.7
5
6
1
ODIs
78
75
4015
2717
89
5/28
5/28
30.52
4.06
45.1
2
1
0
First-class
148
31722
12544
473
8/46
26.52
2.37
67.0
24
5
List A
130
6856
4384
167
5/28
5/28
26.25
3.83
41.0
5
1
0
Career statistics
Test debut
Australia v New Zealand at Adelaide, Jan 26-31, 1974 scorecard
Last Test
Australia v New Zealand at Perth, Nov 30-Dec 4, 1985 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
New Zealand v Australia at Dunedin, Mar 30, 1974 scorecard
Last ODI
West Indies v New Zealand at Bridgetown, Apr 23, 1985 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1971/72 - 1984/85
List A span
1972/73 - 1988
Profile
Coming from Spring Creek, a Marlborough hamlet, Lance Cairns was the rawest of cricketers. The first Test he saw was the first one he played in.
He had no idea that his awkward wrong-footed delivery was not the orthodox bowling action. But soon Cairns' ability to bowl big inswingers, and batsmanship born of broad shoulders and a good eye, made him a crowd-pleasing match-winner. He carried a wooden club, rather than a bat, with cutaway shoulders and bearing the name Excalibur - a massive blade that carved six sixes in one memorable one-day international against Australia at Melbourne. And one Christchurch day when New Zealand were waiting for Lancaster Park to dry out, Lance Cairns was bowling on the outfield to a classy 14-year-old - the Chris Cairns who in a decade or so would surpass his father's famous deeds.
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