{{short description|South African cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Colin Rushmere | image = | country = South Africa | fullname = Colin George Rushmere | birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|4|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa | death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|01|20|1937|4|16|df=y}} | death_place = Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm medium | role = | family = Mark Rushmere (son) | club1 = Eastern Province | year1 = {{nowrap|1956/57–1958/59}} | club2 = Western Province | year2 = 1960/61 | club3 = Eastern Province | year3 = 1962/63–1965/66 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 33 | runs1 = 1,245 | bat avg1 = 23.05 | 100s/50s1 = 2/4 | top score1 = 153 | deliveries1 = 1,686 | wickets1 = 20 | bowl avg1 = 28.80 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 4/29 | catches/stumpings1 = 19/– | date = 10 August | year = 2014 | source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14486/14486.html Cricket Archive }} '''Colin George Rushmere''' (16 April 1937 – 20 January 2017)<ref>{{cite web| url = http://mype.co.za/new/rip-colin-rushmere/82626/2017/01| title = RIP Colin Rushmere| publisher = MyPE News| accessdate = 25 January 2017| archive-date = 12 March 2017| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170312080921/http://mype.co.za/new/rip-colin-rushmere/82626/2017/01| url-status = dead}}</ref> was a South African conservationist and cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1957 to 1965.
==Cricket career== Rushmere made his first-class debut for Eastern Province against Orange Free State in a friendly match in 1956–57, scoring 46 and 55 batting at number five, and taking 3 for 49 and 3 for 27 with his medium-pace bowling.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/22/22345.html Orange Free State v Eastern Province 1956-57]</ref> In a friendly match the next season against Griqualand West he scored 147 in an innings victory for Eastern Province.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/22/22829.html Griqualand West v Eastern Province 1957-58]</ref> He also played several matches for South African Universities between 1955 and 1959, taking 6 for 32 in a two-day match against Orange Free State in 1956–57.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/137/137474.html Orange Free State v South African Universities 1956-57]</ref>
He toured England in 1961 with the South African Fezela XI of promising young players, taking 4 for 29 and 3 for 16 in the victory over Essex.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/24/24839.html Essex v South African Fezela XI 1961]</ref> After the tour, however, he played purely as a batsman, usually opening the innings. Against Western Province in 1962–63 he scored 153, putting on 312 for the first wicket with Geoff Dakin.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/25/25904.html Western Province v Eastern Province 1962-63]</ref> He captained Eastern Province in two matches in the Currie Cup in 1963–64. After scoring only 48 runs in the first three matches in 1965–66 he retired from first-class cricket.
==Later career== Rushmere worked with the family law firm Rushmere Noach that his father Colin had founded in 1933 in Port Elizabeth.<ref>[http://www.rushmere.co.za/kariegas-rhinos/ R190k Raised to Save Kariega's Rhinos] Retrieved 11 August 2014.</ref> He also held administrative positions in the Eastern Province Cricket Union, serving as president in the 1980s.<ref>[http://www.stgeorgespark.nmmu.ac.za/content/grounds/displayarticle.asp?artid=gro_027 The Grounds] Retrieved 11 August 2014.</ref>
In 1989 he bought 660 hectares of land on the Kariega River and began developing it into a game reserve and resort. In subsequent years Kariega Game Reserve expanded to 10,000 hectares, including land on the Bushman's River.<ref>[http://www.kariega.co.za/about-us/kariegas-history History of Kariega Game Reserve] Retrieved 11 August 2014.</ref> The reserve now has several important conservation species, including lion, elephant, giraffe, black and white rhinoceros, hippopotamus and cape leopard.<ref>[http://www.kariega.co.za/about-us/wildlife-history Kariega wildlife history] Retrieved 11 August 2014.</ref>
Rushmere's brother John played first-class cricket in South Africa in the 1960s.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14487/14487.html John Rushmere at Cricket Archive]</ref> Colin's son Mark played Test cricket for South Africa in the 1990s and now helps to run Kariega Game Reserve.<ref>[http://www.timeslive.co.za/sport/2010/09/12/cricket-s-mount-rushmere-still-bok-for-the-big-game Cricket's Mount Rushmere still Bok for the big game] Retrieved 11 August 2014.</ref>
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