Bruce Blair

{{short description|New Zealand cricketer (born 1957)}} {{for|the American anti–nuclear weapons activist|Bruce G. Blair}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2013}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Bruce Blair | image = | fullname = Bruce Robert Blair | birth_date = {{birth date and age text|27 December 1957}} | birth_place = Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand | family = {{ubl|Wayne Blair (brother)|Roy Blair (father)|James Blair (great uncle)}} | country = New Zealand | international = true | internationalspan = 1982–1986 | odidebutdate = 17 February | odidebutyear = 1982 | odidebutagainst = Australia | odicap = 41 | lastodidate = 15 April | lastodiyear = 1986 | lastodiagainst = Pakistan | batting = Left-handed | bowling = Right-arm medium | club1 = Otago | year1 = {{nowrap|1976/77–1983/84}} | club2 = Northern Districts | year2 = 1984/85–1985/86 | club3 = Otago | year3 = 1986/87–1989/90 | columns = 3 | column1 = ODI | matches1 = 14 | runs1 = 174 | bat avg1 = 14.50 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 29* | deliveries1 = 30 | wickets1 = 1 | bowl avg1 = 34.00 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 1/7 | catches/stumpings1 = 4/– | column2 = FC | matches2 = 110 | runs2 = 5,995 | bat avg2 = 32.58 | 100s/50s2 = 7/40 | top score2 = 143 | deliveries2 = 3,796 | wickets2 = 55 | bowl avg2 = 31.81 | fivefor2 = 0 | tenfor2 = 0 | best bowling2 = 4/26 | catches/stumpings2 = 81/– | column3 = LA | matches3 = 74 | runs3 = 1,583 | bat avg3 = 23.62 | 100s/50s3 = 0/11 | top score3 = 91 | deliveries3 = 2,087 | wickets3 = 43 | bowl avg3 = 31.62 | fivefor3 = 0 | tenfor3 = 0 | best bowling3 = 4/37 | catches/stumpings3 = 24/– | date = 11 May | year = 2017 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/36299.html Cricinfo }}

'''Bruce Robert Blair''' (born 27 December 1957) is a New Zealand former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Otago and Northern Districts between 1977 and 1990.<ref name=ca>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1714/1714.html Bruce Blair], CricketArchive. Retrieved 2022-04-30. {{subscription required}}</ref> He played 14 One Day Internationals for the New Zealand national cricket team in the mid-1980s. He coached Northern Districts from 2001 to 2006 and was later a coaching services advisor at the New Zealand Academy of Sport in Hamilton. He was a selector for both Northern Districts and Central Districts.<ref name=mc>McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 20. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. {{isbn|978 1 905138 98 2}}</ref>

Blair was born at Dunedin and educated at Otago Boys High School.<ref name=mc/> His father, Roy Blair, played for Otago in 1953–54 and his older brother, Wayne, played first-class cricket for Otago from 1967–68 to 1990–91.<ref>McCarron, ''op. cit.'', pp. 20–21.</ref> A great-uncle, James Blair, also played for the provincial team in 1926–27

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