John Cyril Collins was a Fijian

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. He played six first-class matches for the Fiji national cricket team on a tour of

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in 1895. He scored Fiji's only

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of the tour, an

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of 128

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against Hawke's Bay.Scorecard
of Hawke's Bay v Taranaki, 19 February 1895 at Cricket Archive

References

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