Ross Alexander Dykes (26 February 1945 – 30 November 2020) was a New Zealand cricketer who played 31
first-class matches for
Auckland in the
Plunket Shield between 1967 and 1977. A wicketkeeper and left-handed batsman, he made 81 dismissals and scored 723 runs.
Dykes continued to serve cricket, becoming a New Zealand selector for 13 years, then chief executive of the
Otago Cricket Association
The Otago cricket team, nicknamed the Volts since the 1997–98 season, are a New Zealand first-class cricket team which first played representative cricket in 1864. The team represents the Otago, Southland and North Otago regions of New Zea ...
for 10 years, retiring in 2015. A major achievement of his tenure was the development of
University Oval in
Dunedin as New Zealand's seventh
Test ground.
Dykes died in
Auckland on 30 November 2020, aged 75.
See also
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List of Auckland representative cricketers
This is a list of all cricketers who have played first-class, list A or Twenty20 cricket for Auckland cricket team. Seasons given are first and last seasons; the player did not necessarily play in all the intervening seasons.
A
* John Ackla ...
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1945 births
2020 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
New Zealand cricket administrators
Auckland cricketers
Wicket-keepers
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