Gary Beer

{{short description|New Zealand cricketer (born 1941)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2013}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Gary Beer | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | fullname = Gary Douglas Beer | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1941|10|10}} | birth_place = Christchurch, New Zealand | heightft = | heightinch = | heightm = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm medium | role = Batsman | family = | club1 = Central Districts | year1 = {{nowrap|1963/64–1964/65}} | club2 = Otago | year2 = 1965/66–1967/68 | type1 = FC | debutdate1 = 22 March | debutyear1 = 1963 | debutfor1 = New Zealand under-23 | debutagainst1 = Northern Districts | lastdate1 = 5 January | lastyear1 = 1968 | lastfor1 = Otago | lastagainst1 = Central Districts | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 19 | runs1 = 572 | bat avg1 = 16.82 | 100s/50s1 = 0/1 | top score1 = 57 | deliveries1 = 6 | wickets1 = 1 | bowl avg1 = 7.00 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 1/7 | catches/stumpings1 = 10/– | source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/gary-beer-36413 CricInfo | date = 8 January | year = 2022 }}

'''Gary Douglas Beer''' (born 10 October 1941), was a New Zealand cricketer who played 19 first-class matches for the Central Districts and Otago in the 1960s.<ref name=ci>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/36413.html Gary Beer], CricInfo. Retrieved 2022-01-08.</ref>

Beer was born at Christchurch in New Zealand,<ref name=ci/> educated at Christchurch West High School<ref name=mc>McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 17. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. {{isbn|978 1 905138 98 2}} ([https://archive.acscricket.com/cricketers_series/new_zealand_cricketers_1863-64_2010/index.html Available online] at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.)</ref> and played club cricket for Sydenham Cricket Club in the city. He was described in 1961, before his first-class debut, as "one of the most promising cricketers in Canterbury" and as an "aggressive opening bat, a fine fielder with a good arm, and a useful, medium-pace bowler".<ref>[https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19610916.2.92 People in the play], ''Press'', 16 September 1961, p. 9. Retrieved 2022-01-08.</ref> He played under-20 and under-23 cricket for Canterbury in 1961/62 and under-23 cricket for Central Districts the following season, during which he made his first-class debut in March 1963, playing for a New Zealand under-23 team against Northern Districts. He went on to make his Plunket Shield debut for Central Districts in December of the same year.<ref name=ca>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/21/21424/21424.html Gary Beer], CricketArchive. Retrieved 2022-01-08. {{subscription required}}</ref> He played six matches for Central Districts over the following two seasons, his final first-class appearance for the team coming against the touring Pakistanis in February 1965.<ref name=ca/>

The following season, Beer moved to play for Otago. He played in 12 senior matches for the team, his final first-class appearance coming in January 1968 in a Plunket Shield match against Central Districts.<ref name=ca/> He played in a non-first-class match for the team against the touring Australians in February 1967.<ref name=ca/> In his 19 first-class matches he scored a total of 572 runs with a highest score of 57―his only half-century in first-class cricket.<ref name=ci/><ref name=wis>[https://wisden.com/players/gary-beer Gary Beer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240827155307/https://www.wisden.com/players/gary-beer |date=27 August 2024 }}, Wisden online. Retrieved 2022-01-08.</ref> Beer played Hawke Cup cricket for Hawke's Bay in 1963/64 and 1964/65 and for Wairarapa in 1970/71 and 1971/72.<ref name=ca/>

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