Kevin Burns
Personal information
Full name
Kevin James Burns
Born (1960-07-07) 7 July 1960
Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1977/78–1991/92Southland
1980/81–1991/92Otago
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 6 May 2016

Kevin James Burns (born 7 July 1960) is a New Zealand former cricketer. He played 58 first-class and 31 List A matches, all but one of them for Otago between the 1980–81 and 1991–92 seasons.[1]

Burns was born at Invercargill in 1960.[2] He played for Southland in a December 1977 Hawke Cup match against Central Otago at Balclutha, and went on to play Hawke a total of 28 Hawke Cup matches for the side, with his final appearance in 1992. He played for Otago age-group sides before making his representative debut for the senior Otago side in December 1980 against Wellington at Molyneux Park in Alexandra.[3]

Primarily a batsman, Burns played in a total of 58 first-class matches and scored a total of 2,729 runs at a batting average of 29.03 runs per innings, including three centuries.[3] He set new record partnerships for Otago for the second wicket―putting on 254 runs batting with Ken Rutherford against Wellington in 1987/88―and for the fourth wicket―a partnership of 235 with Richard Hoskin against Northern Districts during the same season.[2] He played one match for a New Zealand XI against the touring England side, opening the batting in a match played between the first and second Test matches of a three match Test series, but never played international cricket for New Zealand.[3] He played in 31 List A matches for Otago, scoring 497 runs, and made his final appearance for Otago in January 1991.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Kevin Burns". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 27. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2
  3. 1 2 3 4 Kevin Burns, CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 May 2023. (subscription required)


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