{{short description|New Zealand cricketer (born 1963)}} {{Similar names|Seán Treacy (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023|cs1-dates=ly formats}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2013}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Sean Tracy | image = | country = New Zealand | fullname = Sean Robert Tracy | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|6|7|df=yes}} | birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm fast-medium | role = Bowler | club1 = Auckland | year1 = {{nowrap|1982/83–1984/85}} | club2 = Canterbury | year2 = 1985/86 | club3 = Otago | year3 = 1990/91 | columns = 2 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 30 | runs1 = 124 | bat avg1 = 4.76 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 33 | deliveries1 = 4,047 | wickets1 = 81 | bowl avg1 = 28.59 | fivefor1 = 3 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 5/19 | catches/stumpings1 = 7/– | column2 = List A | matches2 = 23 | runs2 = 40 | bat avg2 = 6.66 | 100s/50s2 = 0/0 | top score2 = 10* | deliveries2 = 1,114 | wickets2 = 22 | bowl avg2 = 33.72 | fivefor2 = 0 | tenfor2 = 0 | best bowling2 = 4/16 | catches/stumpings2 = 5/– | date = 30 January | year = 2024 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/38676.html CricInfo }}
'''Sean Robert Tracy''' (born 7 June 1963) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played for Auckland, Canterbury and Otago in a top-level career which lasted from the 1982–83 season until 1990–91.<ref name=ci>[http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/38676.html Sean Tracy], CricInfo. Retrieved 2024-01-30.</ref>
Tracy was born at Auckland in 1963 and educated at Auckland Grammar School.<ref name=mc>McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010''. 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 2023-06-05.)</ref> A right-arm fast bowler, he played in age-group sides for both Auckland and New Zealand during the 1981–82 season before making his senior representative debut for Auckland the following season whilst regular bowlers Martin Snedden and Gary Troup were touring Australia with the New Zealand national side. In five matches he took 12 wickets, although "he impressed with his pace" during the season<ref name=alderson>Alderson A (2010) [https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/cricket-top-10-bowling-bolters/HSBRLCM7WAQ4C655HDGBF2AYBA/ Cricket: Top 10 bowling bolters], ''New Zealand Herald'', 2010-01-31. Retrieved 2024-01-30.</ref><ref name=ca>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/23/23000/23000.html Sean Tracy], CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-01-30. {{subscription required}}</ref> and was considered "a handful with the ball"<ref name=lewis05>Lewis P (2005) [https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/empaul-lewisem-lost-state-of-provincial-cricket/BTPGYXJYNUOFOQTXBUXMZ3IR7A/ Paul Lewis: Lost state of provincial cricket], ''New Zealand Herald'', 2005-12-10. Retrieved 2024-01-24.</ref> At the end of the season he toured Australia with a New Zealand Emerging Players side.<ref name=ca/>
Following his debut season, Tracy spent the 1983 winter playing league cricket in the west of England on a cricket scholarship with Gloucestershire County Cricket Club.<ref name=wis84>The New Zealanders in England, 1983, ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', 1984. London: Bloomsbury. ([https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/155266.html Available online] at CricInfo. Retrieved 2024-01-30.)</ref><ref name=tct>[https://test-cricket-tours.co.uk/page_1741695.html New Zealand to England 1983], Test Cricket Tours. Retrieved 2024-01-30.</ref> He played for the county's Second XI and made a single first-class appearance against the touring New Zealand national side which was touring the country at the time. He took the wickets of leading batsmen Bruce Edgar and Jeff Crowe, and with bowlers Geoff Howarth and Martin Snedden carrying injuries, Tracy was called into the tour party after the second Test match.<ref name=alderson/><ref name=ca/><ref name=tct/><ref name=hepburn>Hepburh S (2014) [https://www.odt.co.nz/sport/cricket/cricket-plenty-promised-few-delivered Cricket: Plenty promised, few delivered], ''Otago Daily Times'', 2014-01-17. Retrieved 2024-01-30.</ref> He had impressed the selectors with his pace, but played in only two of the remaining matches, taking two wickets against Hampshire before taking five wickets for 29 runs (5/29) in 6.3 overs against DB Close's XI at Scarborough in the final tour match.<ref name=alderson/><ref name=hepburn/> This performance, his first five-wicket haul, led to ''Wisden'' suggesting that he "gave promise that he might answer some of New Zealand's bowling problems in the future" in its review of the tour.<ref name=wis84/>
Although he toured Zimbabwe with a Young New Zealand side in 1984–85, playing in two first-class matches, he never played for the full national side and after three seasons playing for Auckland Tracy moved to play for Canterbury in 1985–86.<ref name=ca/><ref name=hepburn/> Considered over-reliant on his pace and unable to "get enough swing or movement off the pitch to worry topliners consistently",<ref name=lewis14>Lewis P (2014) [https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/paul-lewis-great-expectations-burden/USK5DSZ233J5VSJ6H7WQA4VJIQ/ Paul Lewis: Great expectations burden], ''New Zealand Herald'', 2014-01-19. Retrieved 2024-01-30.</ref> he played Second XI matches for Auckland during the 1987–88 and 1988–89 seasons before playing one final season of top-level cricket for Otago in 1990–91.<ref name=ca/> In a total of 30 first-class matches Tracy took 81 wickets. In 23 List A matches he added a further 22.<ref name=ci/>
Tracy played club cricket for Howick-Pakuranga and Ellerslie cricket clubs in the Auckland area and was a rugby union fullback for Waimate in South Canterbury.<ref name=hepburn/><ref name=lewis14/> He worked as a school teacher.<ref name=mc/>
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