# Colin Rushmere

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{{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](/source/Port_Elizabeth), [Cape Province](/source/Cape_Province), South Africa
|          death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|01|20|1937|4|16|df=y}} 
|         death_place = Port Elizabeth, [Eastern Cape](/source/Eastern_Cape), South Africa
|             batting = Right-handed
|             bowling = Right-arm medium
|                role = 
|              family = [Mark Rushmere](/source/Mark_Rushmere) (son)
|               club1 = [Eastern Province](/source/Eastern_Province_cricket_team)
|               year1 = {{nowrap|1956/57–1958/59}}
|               club2 = [Western Province](/source/Western_Province_cricket_team)
|               year2 = 1960/61
|               club3 = Eastern Province
|               year3 = 1962/63–1965/66
|             columns = 1
|             column1 = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket)
|            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](/source/Conservation_movement) and [cricket](/source/cricket)er who played [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket) from 1957 to 1965.

==Cricket career==
Rushmere made his first-class debut for [Eastern Province](/source/Eastern_Province_cricket_team) against [Orange Free State](/source/Orange_Free_State_cricket_team) in a [friendly match](/source/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](/source/Griqualand_West_cricket_team) 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](/source/South_African_Universities_cricket_team) 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](/source/South_African_Fezela_XI) of promising young players, taking 4 for 29 and 3 for 16 in the victory over [Essex](/source/Essex_County_Cricket_Club).<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](/source/Western_Province_cricket_team) in 1962–63 he scored 153, putting on 312 for the first wicket with [Geoff Dakin](/source/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](/source/Currie_Cup_(cricket)) 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](/source/Kariega_River) and began developing it into a [game reserve](/source/game_reserve) and resort. In subsequent years Kariega Game Reserve expanded to 10,000 hectares, including land on the [Bushman's River](/source/Boesmans_River_(Eastern_Cape)).<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](/source/lion), [elephant](/source/African_elephant), [giraffe](/source/giraffe), [black](/source/black_rhinoceros) and [white rhinoceros](/source/white_rhinoceros), [hippopotamus](/source/hippopotamus) and [cape leopard](/source/leopard).<ref>[http://www.kariega.co.za/about-us/wildlife-history Kariega wildlife history] Retrieved 11 August 2014.</ref>

Rushmere's brother [John](/source/John_Rushmere) 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](/source/Mark_Rushmere) played [Test cricket](/source/Test_cricket) for [South Africa](/source/South_Africa_cricket_team) 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>

==References==
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Category:1937 births
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Category:South African cricketers
Category:Eastern Province cricketers
Category:Western Province cricketers
Category:South African Universities cricketers
Category:South African conservationists
Category:Cricketers from Gqeberha

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