Adam Craig Parore (born 23 January 1971) is a former

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and batsman for the

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. He played 78

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matches for

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and 179

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cricket matches. Parore has been the managing director of financial services firm Adam Parore Mortgages. CoinHQ was also founded by him.

International career

He was the first

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to represent New Zealand in cricket. He also holds the record for the highest One Day International innings score without a boundary (96 vs India, in Baroda, 1994). After representing New Zealand for more than a decade, Parore retired from international cricket, his last

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played against

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in 2002. He finished with 204 Test dismissals, a New Zealand record.

Personal life

In 2003 he began a relationship with socialite and television presenter

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, with whom he had two children, and ran a sports clothing company. Ridge and Parore were involved in a controversial house demolition when they wanted to demolish a 100-year-old house and replace it with a new building. In 2006, Parore started his own business, Adam Parore Mortgages as a mortgage broker. In 2009 the couple were embroiled in a $1 million leaky homes lawsuit. They broke up in 2010."Judge keeps Sally Ridge, Adam Parore asset wrangle secret"
22 March 2012, NBR In May 2011 he climbed

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, the only Test cricketer to do so. In March 2014 he married 22-year-old Miller Rose MacLeod-McGhie in Hokianga. The couple reportedly separated in 2016.

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