Adam Craig Parore was a former wicket-keeper and batsman for the New Zealand cricket team. He was born at Auckland, New Zealand on 23 January 1971. He is a right-handed batsman. However, the role he played was as Wicketkeeper. He is also a loving husband to Sally Ridge, with whom he has 2 children and ran a sports clothing company.
Batting And fielding Averages of Adam Parore
| Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s | Ct | St | |
| Tests | 78 | 128 | 19 | 2865 | 110 | 26.28 | 7399 | 38.72 | 2 | 14 | 316 | 12 | 197 | 7 |
| ODIs | 179 | 161 | 32 | 3314 | 108 | 25.68 | 4867 | 68.09 | 1 | 14 | 169 | 36 | 116 | 25 |
| First-class | 163 | 252 | 43 | 6826 | 155* | 32.66 | 10 | 36 | 367 | 24 | ||||
| List A | 255 | 233 | 46 | 5033 | 108 | 26.91 | 1 | 24 | 169 | 33 |
Bowling Averages
| Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10 |
| Tests | 78 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| ODIs | 179 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| First-class | 163 | 30 | 55 | 0 | – | – | – | 11 | – | 0 | 0 | |
| List A | 255 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Overview Of His Carrier
Adam started his Domestic carrier in cricket in the year 1988 and late 1990 he made his first debut to international cricket. He played 78 Test cricket matches and 179 One Day International cricket matches for New Zealand.
International Debut information: Test debut against England in the year 5 July 1990 and 31 October 1992 debut in ODI against Zimbabwe.
The highest run scoring in his carrier is 2,865 runs (test), 3,314(ODI), 6,826(FC) and 5,033(LA).
His highest batting scores are as follows 110 (test), 108 (ODI), 155*(FC) and 108(LA).
He is famous as he is the stunning keeper that New Zealand could ever have and his stumping records go like this 197/7 (test), 116/25 (ODI), 367/24(FC) and 169/33(LA).
He represented New Zealand for over a decade and took retirement from international cricket by holding the Rank No.1 position with 204 Test dismissals. And this is the New Zealand record ever.
He holds the record for the highest One Day International innings score without a boundary (96 vs India, in Baroda, 1994). In 2008, Parore played in the Indian Cricket League, a Twenty20 tournament.
In 2006, he started his own business, Adam Parore Mortgages as a mortgage broker. In, 2009, he had a conflict in a $1 million leaky home lawsuit that got broke up in 2010.
He is the one and only test cricketer to ever climb Mount Everest(2011). Currently, Parore is the managing director of financial services firm Adam Parore Mortgages.
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