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Merv Wallace
New Zealand cricketer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walter Mervyn Wallace MNZM (19 December 1916 – 21 March 2008) was a New Zealand cricketer and former Test match captain.
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Full name | Walter Mervyn Wallace | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1916-12-19)19 December 1916 Grey Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 21 March 2008(2008-03-21) (aged 91) Auckland, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm offbreak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | George Wallace (brother) Gregory Wallace (son) Grant Fox (son-in-law) Ryan Fox (grandson) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut (cap 32) | 26 June 1937 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 13 March 1953 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 1 April 2017 |
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Former New Zealand captain John Reid called him "the most under-rated cricketer to have worn the silver fern."[1] He was nicknamed "Flip" by his teammates, because that was the strongest expletive they ever heard him say.