Dennis John Vear (5 April 1938 – 21 December 2017)
was a New Zealand cricketer who played three
first-class matches 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 ...
in the early 1960s. He also played for
Southland in the
Hawke Cup competition.
Vear was born at
Auckland in 1938 and educated at
Wellington College Wellington College may refer to:
*Wellington College, Berkshire, an independent school in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England
** Wellington College International Shanghai
** Wellington College International Tianjin
*Wellington College, Wellington, New Z ...
where he played cricket.
[McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010''. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ]
Available online
at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) He played age-group cricket for
Wellington under 20 sides from 1954–55 until 1956–57 and played for
Nelson in their Newman Shield victory over Marlborough in February 1955, taking five wickets in the Marlborough first innings. The following season he played for North Island under-20s in a New Zealand Colts trial match.
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After moving to Invercargill, Vear first played for Southland during the 1958–59 season before making his first-class debut for Otago the following season. An all-rounder, he failed to take a wicket but scored 22 runs in the only innings in which Otago batted in February 1960 against Central Districts. In the event this was his highest first-class score. He opened the bowling for Otago against Auckland in early January 1961 but again failed to take a wicket, before going on to take a single wicket in the side's next match against Northern Districts, Vear's final first-class fixture.][
Considered a "batsman of good sense" and a bowler who could "make the ball rise uncomfortably from a good length", Vear continued to play for Southland until the end of the 1960s. He appeared in four Hawke Cup matches for the province and was a mainstay of its bowling attack throughout the decade.][
Vear died at Christchurch in December 2017.][John Vear]
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. Retrieved 7 February 2024.Dennis Vear Obituary
'' Southland Times'', 23 December 2017. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
References
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1938 births
2017 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Otago cricketers
People educated at Wellington College, Wellington