Neil William Rushton (born 3 October 1976) is a New Zealand former

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er. He played five first-class and ten

List A List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...

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 ...

between the 1999–2000 and 2003–04 seasons. Rushton was born at Oamaru in

North Otago North Otago in New Zealand covers the area of Otago between Shag Point and the Waitaki River, and extends inland to the west as far as the village of Omarama (which has experienced rapid growth as a developing centre for astronomy and for glid ...

in 1976 and was educated at

Waitaki Boys' High School Waitaki Boys' High School is a secondary school for boys located in the northern part of the town of Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand, with day and boarding facilities, and was founded in 1883. , it has a school roll of approximately 400 students. The ...

in the town.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 116. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
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at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) He played age-group and Second XI cricket for Otago during the 1990s before making his senior debut for the side in a List A match against Canterbury towards the end of December 1999. After taking two wickets on debut, Rushton played twice more for Otago during the season, taking two more wickets.Neil Rushton
CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 December 2023. After not playing representative cricket the following season, Rushton made three first-class appearances for Otago during the 2000–01 season, although he only took two wickets. He returned to the side in 2002–03, taking two wickets in two first-class matches and two more in seven List A matches. He also played for

in Hawke Cupmatches between 2000–01 and 2002–03. After working in the construction industry, for Christchurch City Council and as a teacher at Waitaki Boy's High School, in 2014 Rushton graduated as a police constable from the Royal New Zealand Police College, going on to work in his home town.Ryan R (2014
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Otago Daily Times The ''Otago Daily Times'' (ODT) is a newspaper published by Allied Press Ltd in Dunedin, New Zealand. The ''ODT'' is one of the country's four main daily newspapers, serving the southern South Island with a circulation of around 26,000 and a c ...

'', 11 July 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2017.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rushton, Neil 1976 births Living people New Zealand cricketers New Zealand police officers Otago cricketers Cricketers from Oamaru People educated at Royal New Zealand Police College People educated at Waitaki Boys' High School