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Full name Stephen Lewis Boock
Born September 20, 1951, Dunedin, Otago
Current age 57 years 24 days
Major teams New Zealand,Canterbury,Otago
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
30
41
8
207
37
6.27
0
0
0
14
0
ODIs
14
7
4
30
12
10.00
31
96.77
0
0
2
0
5
0
First-class
164
195
67
1092
37
8.53
0
0
83
0
List A
61
37
21
118
12
7.37
0
0
21
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
30
48
6598
2564
74
7/87
8/156
34.64
2.33
89.1
1
4
0
ODIs
14
13
700
513
15
3/28
3/28
34.20
4.39
46.6
0
0
0
First-class
164
14314
640
8/57
22.36
40
5
List A
61
3360
1832
80
4/16
4/16
22.90
3.27
42.0
2
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
New Zealand v England at Wellington, Feb 10-15, 1978 scorecard
Last Test
New Zealand v Pakistan at Auckland, Feb 24-28, 1989 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
England v New Zealand at Scarborough, Jul 15, 1978 scorecard
Last ODI
Australia v New Zealand at Chandigarh, Oct 27, 1987 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1973/74 - 1989/90
List A span
1973/74 - 1989/90
Profile
Wisden overview Tall and curly haired, Stephen Boock was an orthodox slow left-armer with excellent control and considerable power of spin. Also an outstanding short-leg fieldsman, Boock (who pronounces his name to rhyme with "Hock") had the thrill of making his Test debut at Wellington in 1977-78, when New Zealand beat England for the first time. A few months later he returned the remarkable figures of 28-18-29-2 as England scored 429 at Trent Bridge. He played a prominent role in New Zealand's first series win over England in 1983-84, taking 4 for 37 in a one-sided match at Christchurch. But it was Boock's misfortune to coincide with an era favouring limited-overs cricket, a game not suited to his rather old-fashioned values: indeed he left one tour of Australia early, seeing no prospect of playing. A genuine tailender, he nevertheless batted grittily, and at Sydney in 1985-86 made 37 of a New Zealand record last-wicket partnership of 124. Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Adapted by Wisden from World Cricketers: A Biographical Dictionary (Oxford, 1996).
