Richard Collinge - Age, Career Info & Stats

Richard Collinge also was known as Richard Owen Collinge was born on 2^nd April 1946. He is a former player in the New Zealand cricket team who has played about 35 Test matches and 15 One Day Internationals. He made his cricketing debut for the Central Districts in the year 1963 and played for them till the 1970s after which he shifted to Wellington where he played till 1975 and finally he played for the Northern Districts till the year 1978. In all the 163 matches that he played, he took around 524 wickets with his best performance of 8 wickets for 64 runs.

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Bowling Averages of Richard Collinge

	Mat	Inns	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Ave	Econ	5w	10
Tests	35	62	3393	116	6/63	29.25	2.64	3	0
ODIs	15	15	479	18	5/23	26.61	3.34	1	0
First-class	163	–	12793	524	8/64	24.41	2.44	22	4
List A	37	–	1048	52	5/23	20.15	3.08	2	0

Richard Collinge’s Career

Richard Collinge’s international career was quite impressive as well. He was a left-arm fast medium paced bowler who ended his long runs with arms stretched upwards before he could finally deliver his ball. He basically relied on late movement. He was one of the instrumental factors which helped Richard Hadlee to bring the first Test match victory of New Zealand against England in the year 1977. He delivered balls that lead to scores like 3 for 42 and 3 for 45. His fast inswinger balls against Geoff Boycott laid the stepping stones for the collapse of England’s innings at 64 all out.

Richard Collinge’s Contribution to Cricket

His Test debut was done in the year 1965 and he played his last match at Lords in the year 1978. He has some great bowling figures in ODIs against India where he took 6 wickets giving 63 runs and 5 wickets for 23 runs in the year 1975 and 1976 respectively. At the time of his retirement, he was the greatest wicket-taker of New Zealand cricket team with around 116 wickets at about 29.25 each, in spite of missing several matches during his 13 years of test career tenure.

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