Stephen Boock
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Full Name
Stephen Lewis Boock
Born
September 20, 1951, Dunedin, Otago
Age
71y 194d
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Slow Left arm Orthodox
Playing Role
Bowler
Wisden overview
Tall and curly haired, Stephen Boock was an orthodox slow left-armer with excellent control and considerable power of spin. Also an outstanding short-leg fieldsman, Boock (who pronounces his name to rhyme with "Hock") had the thrill of making his Test debut at Wellington in 1977-78, when New Zealand beat England for the first time. A few months later he returned the remarkable figures of 28-18-29-2 as England scored 429 at Trent Bridge. He played a prominent role in New Zealand's first series win over England in 1983-84, taking 4 for 37 in a one-sided match at Christchurch. But it was Boock's misfortune to coincide with an era favouring limited-overs cricket, a game not suited to his rather old-fashioned values: indeed he left one tour of Australia early, seeing no prospect of playing. A genuine tailender, he nevertheless batted grittily, and at Sydney in 1985-86 made 37 of a New Zealand record last-wicket partnership of 124.
Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Adapted by Wisden from World Cricketers: A Biographical Dictionary (Oxford, 1996).
Bowling
Format | Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10w |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Test | 30 | 48 | 6598 | 2564 | 74 | 7/87 | 8/156 | 34.64 | 2.33 | 89.1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
ODI | 14 | 13 | 700 | 513 | 15 | 3/28 | 3/28 | 34.20 | 4.39 | 46.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
FC | 164 | - | - | 14314 | 640 | 8/57 | - | 22.36 | - | - | - | 40 | 5 |
List A | 61 | - | 3360 | 1832 | 80 | 4/16 | 4/16 | 22.90 | 3.27 | 42.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Batting & Fielding
Format | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s | Ct | St |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Test | 30 | 41 | 8 | 207 | 37 | 6.27 | - | - | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 14 | 0 |
ODI | 14 | 7 | 4 | 30 | 12 | 10.00 | 31 | 96.77 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
FC | 164 | 195 | 67 | 1092 | 37 | 8.53 | - | - | 0 | 0 | - | - | 83 | 0 |
List A | 61 | 37 | 21 | 118 | 12 | 7.37 | - | - | 0 | 0 | - | - | 21 | 0 |