Stewart Raymond Speed (13 September 1942 – 22 June 2020) was a New Zealand
cricket
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er. He played
first-class cricket for
Auckland between 1962 and 1971.
Speed was a
wicketkeeper-batsman, noted for the timing and elegance of his batting,
who played some valuable innings in adversity. His highest score was 88 in 1964-65 when, going to the crease with Auckland's score at 99 for 6 in reply to
Canterbury's first innings of 349, he took the total to 258. In 1969-70 he went in at 49 for 4 and scored 76 out of a team total of 162 against
Otago
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.
He was Auckland's wicket-keeper when they won the
Plunket Shield in 1968–69. He played in two matches for
North Island
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late in the season, but was not selected for the New Zealand team in the
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against the
West Indies that followed, or for the
tour of England in 1969.
[
The SR Speed Trophy is awarded annually to the wicket-keeper who makes the most dismissals in Auckland senior cricket. Speed died in Whangarei Hospital in June 2020, aged 77. He was survived by his wife and their three daughters.]
See also
* 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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1942 births
2020 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Auckland cricketers
Cricketers from Auckland
North Island cricketers