Shayne Barry O'Connor (born 15 November 1973) is a former New Zealand international
cricket
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er, who played in 19
Test matches and 38
One Day International
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s between 1997 and 2001.
[Shayne O'Connor]
CricInfo
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. Retrieved 28 November 2023. After playing domestically for
Otago
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between the 1994–95 and 2002–03 seasons, he retired from professional cricket after the
2003 Cricket World Cup
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.
O'Connor was born at
Hastings
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east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west a ...
in the
Hawke's Bay Region
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into a farming family. He was educated at
Napier Boys' High School
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Notable alumni
Business
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[Anendra Singh (2014]
Cricket: Ex-Black Cap, Shayne O'Connor's son trek from Otago
'' Hawke's Bay Today'', 27 January 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2023.[McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 101. Cardiff: ]The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
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.
Available online
at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
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. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) He played for
Central Districts age-group sides and the
national under-19 side before making his senior representative debut for Otago during the 1994–95 season. In a career which lasted until the end of the 2002–03 season, O'Connor played in 78 top-level matches for Otago, taking 230 wickets for the side in
first-class and
List A
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matches. He also played
Hawke Cup
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cricket for
Central Otago
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The area is dominated by mountain ranges and the upper reaches of the Clutha River and trib ...
.
[Shayne O'Connor]
CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
O'Connor played 57 times for the
New Zealand national cricket team
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, including taking a
five-wicket haul
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Ta ...
in the semi-final of the
2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy.
[Seconi A (2017]
Five-for carried the day
'' Otago Daily Times'', 1 June 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2023. He retired from cricket at the age of 29 in 2003, opting to take up an opportunity to establish a business at
Alexandra in
Central Otago
Central Otago is located in the inland part of the Otago region in the South Island of New Zealand. The motto for the area is "A World of Difference".
The area is dominated by mountain ranges and the upper reaches of the Clutha River and trib ...
.
[McConnell L (2003]
O'Connor's retirement a blow for New Zealand
CricInfo
ESPN cricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including liveblogs and scorecards), and ''StatsGuru'', a ...
. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
References
1973 births
Living people
New Zealand One Day International cricketers
New Zealand Test cricketers
New Zealand cricketers
Otago cricketers
Cricketers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand
Cricketers from Hastings, New Zealand
Commonwealth Games medallists in cricket
Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
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