Matt Poore
Encyclopedia
Matt Beresford Poore is a former international cricket
er who played Tests
for New Zealand
in the 1950s. He was born in Christchurch
.
A right-handed middle order batsman and handy off-spin bowler, Poore made his Test debut in March 1953 against South Africa at Auckland. He made 170 runs in the five Test series. Although he failed to make a Test half century in his 14 matches – and in fact holds the record for the longest Test career without a half-century or a three-wicket haul – he made 2 hundreds in first class cricket. He retired from cricket in 1956-57 following an unsuccessful summer where he made just 90 runs at 12.85. Four years later he made a comeback to first class cricket which lasted three matches.
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 Tests
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
for New Zealand
New Zealand cricket team
The New Zealand cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, are the national cricket team representing New Zealand. They played their first in 1930 against England in Christchurch, New Zealand, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took the team until 1955–56 to win a Test, against the...
in the 1950s. He was born in Christchurch
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
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A right-handed middle order batsman and handy off-spin bowler, Poore made his Test debut in March 1953 against South Africa at Auckland. He made 170 runs in the five Test series. Although he failed to make a Test half century in his 14 matches – and in fact holds the record for the longest Test career without a half-century or a three-wicket haul – he made 2 hundreds in first class cricket. He retired from cricket in 1956-57 following an unsuccessful summer where he made just 90 runs at 12.85. Four years later he made a comeback to first class cricket which lasted three matches.