Kevin Malcolm Curran is a former Zimbabwean cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played in both the 1983 Cricket World Cup

1983 Cricket World Cup

The 1983 ICC Cricket World Cup was the third edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup tournament. It was held from 9 June to 25 June 1983 in England and was won by India. Eight countries participated in the event. The preliminary matches were played in two groups of four teams each, and each...

 and 1987 Cricket World Cup

1987 Cricket World Cup

The 1987 Cricket World Cup was the fourth edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup tournament. It was held from October 8 to November 8, 1987 in India and Pakistan — the first held outside England. The format was unchanged from 1983 except for a reduction in the number of overs a team played from 60...

. He was also Zimbabwean cricket coach from August 2005 to September 2007 and is currently head of the Zimbabwe Cricket Academy.

A genuine allrounder, Curran was a right arm medium-fast bowler and right-handed middle order batsman. He was a regular in English county cricket during the 1980s and passed 1000 runs in a season five times.