# Gary Beer

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{{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
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|           fullname = Gary Douglas Beer
|         birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1941|10|10}}
|        birth_place = [Christchurch](/source/Christchurch), New Zealand
|           heightft = 
|         heightinch = 
|            heightm = 
|            batting = Right-handed
|            bowling = Right-arm medium
|               role = Batsman
|             family = 
|              club1 = [Central Districts](/source/Central_Districts_cricket_team)
|              year1 = {{nowrap|1963/64–1964/65}}
|              club2 = [Otago](/source/Otago_cricket_team)
|              year2 = 1965/66–1967/68
|              type1 = [FC](/source/First-class_cricket)
|         debutdate1 = 22 March
|         debutyear1 = 1963
|          debutfor1 = New Zealand under-23
|      debutagainst1 = [Northern Districts](/source/Northern_Districts_men's_cricket_team)
|          lastdate1 = 5 January
|          lastyear1 = 1968
|           lastfor1 = Otago
|       lastagainst1 = Central Districts
|            columns = 1
|            column1 = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket)
|           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 match](/source/first-class_match)es for the [Central Districts](/source/Central_Districts_Stags) and [Otago](/source/Otago_Volts) in the 1960s.<ref name=ci>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/36413.html Gary Beer], [CricInfo](/source/CricInfo). Retrieved 2022-01-08.</ref>

Beer was born at [Christchurch](/source/Christchurch) in New Zealand,<ref name=ci/> educated at [Christchurch West High School](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Association_of_Cricket_Statisticians_and_Historians). Retrieved 5 June 2023.)</ref> and played club cricket for [Sydenham](/source/Sydenham%2C_New_Zealand) 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](/source/Canterbury_cricket_team) 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](/source/Northern_Districts_men's_cricket_team). He went on to make his [Plunket Shield](/source/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](/source/Pakistani_cricket_team_in_New_Zealand_in_1964%E2%80%9365) 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](/source/Wisden) online. Retrieved 2022-01-08.</ref> Beer played [Hawke Cup](/source/Hawke_Cup) cricket for [Hawke's Bay](/source/Hawke's_Bay_cricket_team) in 1963/64 and 1964/65 and for [Wairarapa](/source/Wairarapa_cricket_team) in 1970/71 and 1971/72.<ref name=ca/>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=36413}}

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Category:1941 births
Category:Living people
Category:New Zealand cricketers
Category:Central Districts cricketers
Category:Otago cricketers
Category:20th-century New Zealand sportsmen

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