Richard John Webb (born 15 September 1952) is a former New Zealand

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er who played in three

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s (ODIs) for the national team in 1983. He played as a fast-medium paced bowler. He played domestic cricket for

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between the 1975–76 season and 1983–84.Richard Webb

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. Retrieved 2024-02-16. Webb was born at Invercargill in 1952.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010''. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
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at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2023-06-05.) He played age-group cricket for Otago from the 1970–71 season and played for the New Zealand Universities between 1971–72 and 1973–74, also representing the New Zealand under-23 national side in the latter season.Richard Webb
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-02-16. He made his senior debut for Otago the following season, playing two

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matches as an opening bowler, taking a wicket in each. He made his first-class cricket debut the following season and played 25 first-class and 17 List A matches for the side in a career which lasted until the end of the 1983–84 season.

International career

Following a hamstring injury to Richard Hadlee during the

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, Webb was flown in as an emergency replacement bowler in February 1983 on the day before the second match in the best-of-three final, and made his One Day International debut the following day against

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. Webb opened the bowling, taking two wickets in nine overs―finishing with the best figures for New Zealand―and scored six not out as New Zealand lost the match and the final series.World Series Cup – second final match, '' Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', 1984.
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. Retrieved 2024-02-16. He retained his place in the side for the first two ODIs against England, the third team in the tri-series, during their brief tour of New Zealand which followed the tri-series. Webb went wicketless in the first match and took two wickets, including the final wicket of the match, in the second match. He did not play in the final match of the series and was not selected again for the national side. Webb's older brother, the caricaturist

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, also played cricket as a fast bowler for Otago. He played in three

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for New Zealand between 1971 and 1974.

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