{{Short description|Australian cricketer (born 1959)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2012}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Rod McCurdy | country = Australia | fullname = Rodney John McCurdy | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|12|30|df=yes}} | birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm fast-medium | role = Bowler | international = true | odidebutdate = 27 January | odidebutyear = 1985 | odidebutagainst = West Indies | odicap = 85 | lastodidate = 29 March | lastodiyear = 1985 | lastodiagainst = India | club1 = Victoria | year1 = 1979/80 | club2 = Derbyshire | year2 = 1979 | club3 = Tasmania | year3 = 1980/81 | club4 = Victoria | year4 = {{nowrap|1981/82–1983/84}} | club5 = South Australia | year5 = 1984/85 | club6 = Eastern Province | year6 = 1986/87–1990/91 | club7 = Natal | year7 = 1991/92 | club8 = Border | year8 = 1992/93 | columns = 3 | column1 = ODI | matches1 = 11 | runs1 = 33 | bat avg1 = 8.25 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 13* | deliveries1 = 515 | wickets1 = 12 | bowl avg1 = 31.25 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 3/19 | catches/stumpings1 = 1/– | column2 = FC | matches2 = 86 | runs2 = 725 | bat avg2 = 10.21 | 100s/50s2 = 0/1 | top score2 = 55 | deliveries2 = 16,779 | wickets2 = 305 | bowl avg2 = 29.85 | fivefor2 = 16 | tenfor2 = 0 | best bowling2 = 7/55 | catches/stumpings2 = 25/– | column3 = LA | matches3 = 108 | runs3 = 252 | bat avg3 = 14.82 | 100s/50s3 = 0/0 | top score3 = 42 | deliveries3 = 5729 | wickets3 = 171 | bowl avg3 = 22.77 | fivefor3 = 8 | tenfor3 = 0 | best bowling3 = 5/15 | catches/stumpings3 = 13/– | date = 5 August | year = 2011 | source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/6549.html ESPNcricinfo }} '''Rodney John McCurdy''' (born 30 December 1959) is a former first-class cricketer who played for Australia, Border, Derbyshire, Eastern Province, Natal, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria. He now lives in South Africa.
A fast bowler, he played in 11 One Day Internationals in the mid-1980s and later joined in the South African rebel tours in 1985.
==Career== In 1979, McCurdy was in England when, while playing at club level for Pudsey St Lawrence in Yorkshire also appeared at the county level for Derbyshire and Shropshire.<ref>{{cite book|last=Percival|first=Tony|title=Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998|year=1999|publisher=A.C.S. Publications, Nottingham|pages=35, 56|isbn=1-902171-17-9}}Published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.</ref>
McCurdy represented Australia's U-19 team.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131711946 |title=Australian youth team named. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=26 January 1978 |accessdate=16 February 2016 |page=19 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He played for Victoria before moving to Tasmania, for whom he took 7–81 against the touring New Zealanders in 1980–81.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article125645156 |title=CRICKET India fights back in exciting game. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=3 January 1981 |accessdate=16 February 2016 |page=26 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
He returned to Victoria for the 1981–82 season. During the 1984–85 summer, McCurdy signed to play in South Africa.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/638487.html|title = The 16 Aussies who went to South Africa}}</ref>
McCurdy was selected in the original squad to tour England in 1985.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122504539 |title=Australian tour squad. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=21 March 1985 |accessdate=16 February 2016 |page=28 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> However, his South African commitments meant he was unable to tour. McCurdy: <blockquote>It always bugs me. I was picked on the Ashes tour. Would I have gone there? Yes, I was going there. We would have loved to have gone there, played in the Ashes, and come out to South Africa afterward. At least I would have had my opportunity. That's a disappointment for me.<ref name="rod">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/541421.html|title = Baggy green or livelihood?}}</ref></blockquote> McCurdy stayed in South Africa after the tour playing for Eastern Province<ref>{{Cite web |title=St George's Park – Rod McCurdy |url=http://stgeorgespark.nmmu.ac.za/content/personalities/displayarticle.asp?artid=persp_026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901131629/http://stgeorgespark.nmmu.ac.za/content/personalities/displayarticle.asp?artid=persp_026 |archive-date=2006-09-01}}</ref> and joined the rebel tours in South Africa in 1985–86 and 1986–87, defying the international sporting boycott of the apartheid state.
He later ran a security business in Port Elizabeth, making alarms for homes and small businesses. He then moved to Johannesburg to work as operations manager of Tellytrack, the racing television station.
==External links== *{{cricinfo|id=6549}} *[http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/541421.html Baggy green or livelihood? Rod McCurdy cash or country – ESPNcricinfo]
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Rebel Australia in South Africa Squad}}
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