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Craig Owen Findlay (born 17 August 1971 in
Waipukurau Waipukurau is the largest town in the Central Hawke's Bay District on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on the banks of the Tukituki River, 7 kilometres south of Waipawa and 50 kilometres southwest of Hastings. H ...
,
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) is a former
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cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er who played for the
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in the 1990s and the CEO of Hawke's Bay Cricket Association. He also played for
Hawke's Bay Hawke's Bay ( mi, Te Matau-a-Māui) is a local government region on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. The region's name derives from Hawke Bay, which was named by Captain James Cook in honour of Admiral Edward Hawke. The region is ...
in the
Hawke Cup The Hawke Cup is a non-first-class cricket competition for New Zealand's district associations. Apart from 1910–11, 1912–13 and 2000–01 the competition has always been on a challenge basis. To win the Hawke Cup, the challengers must beat t ...
. Craig Findlay now runs the Hawke's Bay branch of a company providing sporting programmes for schools.


Controversy

Findlay was widely criticised in January 2014 for scoring 307 runs off 115 balls after being dropped on 40, against a school cricket team of 15- and 16-year-olds of which were competing in a senior men's division, a member of the public said "That CEO should be nurturing these players not trying to show off and have his score on back page."


References

1971 births Living people New Zealand cricketers Central Districts cricketers People from Waipukurau Sportspeople from the Hawke's Bay Region {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1970s-stub