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Full name Lee Kenneth Germon
Born November 4, 1968, Christchurch, Canterbury
Current age 39 years 263 days
Major teams New Zealand,Canterbury,Otago
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
12
21
3
382
55
21.22
978
39.05
0
1
54
1
27
2
ODIs
37
31
5
519
89
19.96
787
65.94
0
3
28
1
21
9
First-class
103
142
35
3123
160*
29.18
4
10
258
26
List A
136
105
23
1586
89
19.34
0
7
119
28
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
ODIs
37
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
103
10
12
1
1/12
12.00
7.20
10.0
0
0
List A
136
6
8
0
-
-
-
8.00
-
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
India v New Zealand at Bangalore, Oct 18-20, 1995 scorecard
Last Test
New Zealand v England at Wellington, Feb 6-10, 1997 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Bloemfontein, Dec 8, 1994 scorecard
Last ODI
New Zealand v England at Wellington, Mar 4, 1997 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1987/88 - 2001/02
List A span
1987/88 - 2001/02
Profile
After the controversy during the tour of RSA in 1994-5 and the poor form
during the home centenary season immediately following that, the administration of the New Zealand game at the top level fell apart. Part of the shake-up involved appointing a new coach (Glenn Turner) and this, in turn, led to a change of New Zealand captain. Turner wanted someone with proven leadership skills, who had the respect of the players, and who could maintain discipline both on and off the field by his own example. He had no hesitation in going for Lee Germon, a player with no previous Test experience, but who had been on the tour of South Africa and had proven leadership skills at provincial level. With Canterbury, he was required to take over an ailing team, many of whom were more experienced, and he did an excellent job of moulding them into the best provincial team in the country. He was a keeper who can bat in the lower-middle order, and a place was found for him in the team by converting Adam Parore into a specialist batsman. As a keeper he was a good, if inconsistent, player and he was better standing up. Much of his inconsistency as a keeper could be put
down to that. As a batsman he loved to pepper the boundary square on the
off side off the back foot, and his batting form as captain in India was
ample proof of his ability to lead by example. At ODI level, with the side in
desperate need of a No. 3, Germon was occasionally pressed into service in this
role. Against Australia in the 1996 World Cup quarter-final he was outstandingly
successful at No. 3, sharing in a huge partnership with Chris Harris. In 1997 his form fell away under new coach Steve Rixon and he started to lose some of the players' respect. With Turner not involved in either coaching or selection he lost his place in the side.
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