George Buck Cummings (21 September 1882 – 30 December 1943) was a New Zealand

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er. He played

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for

Otago Otago (, ; mi, Ōtākou ) is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island administered by the Otago Regional Council. It has an area of approximately , making it the country's second largest local government reg ...

and

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between the 1902–03 and 1922–23 seasons. Cummings was born at

Dunedin Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th ...

in 1882 and was the older brother of

Edwin Cummings Edwin Moon Cummings (29 January 1885 – 22 November 1951) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played two first-class matches for Otago, one in each of the 1909–10 and 1911–12 seasons. Cummings was born at Dunedin in 1885. He worked as a ...

who also played for Otago. He worked as a warehouseman.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 40. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. He made his senior debut for Otago in the Christmas Day fixture against

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in 1902. He played four matches for Otago, including one against a touring English team led by Lord Hawke in February 1903. Between the 1907–08 season and 1922–23 he played occasionally for Auckland, making a total of 10 first-class appearances for the side. He scored a total of 495 runs and took eight wickets in his 14 first-class matches.George Cummings
CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 May 2023. Cummings died at

in December 1943. He was aged 61.

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