Michael Curran MacKenzie (born 18 September 1974) is a New Zealand former
cricket
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er. He played two
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 ...
during the 1992–93 season.
[Michael MacKenzie]
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MacKenzie was born at
Ranfurly in
Central Otago
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in 1974.
[McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 86. 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 Otago before making his senior representative debut for the team later in the 1992–93 season. Both of MacKenzie's first-class matches were
Plunket Shield fixtures played in January 1993. Primarily a
leg spin bowler, he took two wickets and scored nine runs in first-class cricket. He continued playing regularly for the Otago Second XI throughout the 1993–94 season and made a single appearance for the side in each of the 1995–96 and 2000–01 seasons.
[Michael MacKenzie]
CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
After his career with Otago, MacKenzie became a player-coach for Taieri Cricket Club in
Mosgiel. He played in more than 200 matches for the team, scoring 4,000 runs and taking 250 wickets.
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1974 births
Living people
New Zealand cricketers
Otago cricketers
People from Ranfurly, New Zealand
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