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New Zealand
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NZ
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Ken Rutherford
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56
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2465
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2708
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3/18
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107
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256
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16100
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1/38
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32/-
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121
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3143
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2965
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108
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389
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41/-
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4 February
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2006
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(born
26 October 1965 ,
Dunedin ) was a
New Zealand Cricketer who enjoyed a ten-year career with the team, admittedly without the great heights. Aged 19, with a solitary first class season behind him, he was asked to open the batting for New Zealand against West Indies when the latter were at the height of their powers. His first 6 scores in Tests were 0, 0, 4 (an edge through the slips), 0, 2 & 5.
He showed an uncanny knack for not converting fifties into centuries in
Test Cricket - he clearly had the ability to do so, as shown by his 35 first-class centuries - and also captained New Zealand's team for three years, with only two Test wins in 18 attempts. Arguably, his greatest success came in
One-day Internationals where he won ten matches as captain and made his international highest score, with 108 in a losing cause against
India . After he was dropped from the New Zealand team in
1995 , he moved to
South Africa , where he played
First-class Cricket for five seasons, first for Transvaal and then for Gauteng, before finally retiring, scoring a duck in his very last game. After retirement from the playing side of the game, Rutherford coached the
Irish National Cricket Team .
Rutherford's highest first-class score of 317, scored playing for a New Zealand touring side against a
D.B.Close XI at
Scarborough in
1986 , achieved several records for New Zealand cricket. it contained eight sixes and 45 boundary fours, crossing the boundary rope a record 53 times. The runs were scored in a day - the most runs scored in one day by a New Zealand batsman, and 199 of the runs were scored in on session between lunch and tea. Only one cricketer worldwide has scored more first-class runs in one session -
Don Bradman .
Rutherford's elder brother Ian also played first-class cricket at a provincial level for
Otago .
