Donald Ernest Cameron McKechnie (23 March 1944 – 10 August 2021) was a New Zealand

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er and

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. He was born at

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in 1944 and educated at

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in the city.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 86. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
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at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) A left-arm spin bowler, McKechnie played 17 first-class matches for

between 1975 and 1981. His most successful match was against

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in 1975–76, when he took 3 for 71 and 6 for 65 and Otago won by 10 runs. He won the

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award in the low-scoring match against

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in 1976–77 when he took six wickets and three catches and top-scored in Otago's first innings with 27 batting at number nine. Later, McKechnie became an

, officiating in eight first-class matches between 1986 and 1990. He died in Balclutha on 10 August 2021.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:McKechnie, Don 1944 births 2021 deaths New Zealand cricketers Otago cricketers Cricketers from Dunedin New Zealand cricket umpires