Merv Wallace
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| Full name | Walter Mervyn Wallace | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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19 December 1916 Grey Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand |
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| Died | 21 March 2008 (aged 91) Auckland, New Zealand |
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm offbreak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations |
George Wallace (brother) Gregory Wallace (son) Grant Fox (son-in-law) Ryan Fox (grandson) |
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| Test debut (cap 32) | 26 June 1937 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 13 March 1953 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 1 April 2017
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Walter Mervyn "Merv" Wallace MNZM (19 December 1916 – 21 March 2008) was a New Zealand cricketer and former Test match captain.
Former New Zealand captain John Reid called him "the most under-rated cricketer to have worn the silver fern." He was nicknamed "Flip" by his teammates, because that was the strongest expletive they ever heard him say.
Wallace was born in Grey Lynn, Auckland. He left school aged 13, and was coached at Eden Park by Ted Bowley and Jim Parks. He played cricket with his brother, George Wallace, with the Point Chevalier Cricket Club, and then the Auckland under-20 side.
He made his first-class debut for Auckland in the Plunket Shield in December 1933. He toured to England in 1937, in a team weakened by a policy of refusing to select professional cricketers. He scored two half-centuries (52 and 56) on his Test debut, at Lord's. He headed the tour batting averages, scoring 1,641 runs at an average of 41.02. The peak years of his cricketing career were lost to the Second World War, and he did not play Test cricket again until March 1946.
He scored 211, his highest first-class score, against Canterbury in January 1940.[1] He joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, but was invalided out due to stomach muscle problems caused by an appendix operation.
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