Campbell James Marie Furlong (born 16 June 1974) is a former New Zealand

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and Hawke Cup cricket for Hawke's Bay. He was born in

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. His father is former

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Playing career

Furlong toured Pakistan with the

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in January and February 1994, playing in three under-19 tests and three under-19 one-day internationals against the Pakistan under-19 side. In the three tests, he scored 65 runs with the bat at an average of 16.25 and a high score of 44, and took 10 wickets at 22.40 with best bowling figures of 5/94. In the three ODIs, he made 20 runs at an average of 6.66 with a high score of 13, and took one wicket with an average of 92.00 and best bowling of 1/35. An off-spin bowler and a middle-order batsman, Furlong made his debut for Central Districts in the 1994/95 season. He played six seasons for Central Districts up to the 1999/2000 season, making 35 first-class appearances. He recorded his best first-class bowling figures of 7/72 against Northern Districts at

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, in the 1996/97 season. Furlong then spent 18 months living in London on his

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, where he did not play any cricket and worked in the banking sector. After returning to New Zealand in 2001, he settled in

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, where his partner found work as a primary school teacher, and he joined the New Plymouth Marist United Cricket Club. He was quickly named as captain of the Taranaki cricket team, and then captained Central Districts in a

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competition in November 2001. He went on to play seven first-class matches for Central Districts in the 2001/02 season, his last in first-class cricket, and achieved his highest first-class score of 88 with the bat. Across seven first-class seasons, he scored 933 runs at an average of 17.94, took 92 wickets at an average of 44.60, and took 53 catches. Furlong continued to play one-day cricket for Central Districts until the 2003/04 season, before retiring, but made a comeback in the 2006/07 season when he was again contracted by Central Districts. In that season, he made eight appearances in List-A (one-day) matches and played two

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games for Central Districts, before once again retiring. In all, he played 75 List-A matches for Central Districts between 1994/95 and 2006/07.

Post-playing career

Furlong served on the board of the Central Districts Cricket Association from 2011 to 2016, including a few months as chair between June and November 2016. After beginning work in banking, Furlong became an accountant, and is now a partner in

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' Hawke's Bay office.

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