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Full name | David Victor Spence | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Hastings, New Zealand | 8 January 1930||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm leg-spin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1955–56 to 1961–62 | Central Districts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,29 March 2017 |
David Victor Spence (born 8 January 1930) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Central Districts from 1955 to 1962.
Dave Spence played five matches for Central Districts in 1955–56,one in 1960–61,and five more in 1961–62. A middle-order batsman and leg-spin bowler,he took his best bowling figures of 5 for 38 in a victory over Wellington in the second match of the 1955–56 Plunket Shield season, [1] then made his highest score of 61 in an innings victory over Otago in the next match 11 days later. [2] At the time he was considered a potential Test player. [3] However,after that season he played only six more first-class matches,in which he took five wickets. [4]
Spence also played Hawke Cup cricket for Hawke's Bay from 1950 to 1953,and for Nelson from 1954 to 1967. [5] He was the captain of the Nelson side that held the Hawke Cup during its record title run from 1958 to 1965,and he was named in the Hawke Cup Team of the Century in 2011. [6]
He now lives in Gosford,New South Wales. [6] In January 2021,with the death of Doug Bowden,he became Central Districts' oldest surviving player. [7]
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