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Full name Gregory Charles Dyer
Born March 16, 1959, Parramatta, Sydney, New South Wales
Current age 49 years 166 days
Major teams Australia, New South Wales
Batting style Right-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper

Batting and fielding averages

Mat

Inns

Runs

Ave

100

Tests

131

21.83

307

42.67

ODIs

174

45*

15.81

227

76.65

First-class

1671

106

28.81

123

List A

408

52*

20.40

Bowling averages

Mat

Inns

Balls

Runs

Wkts

BBI

BBM

Ave

Econ

Tests

ODIs

First-class

List A

Career statistics

Test debut

Australia v England at Adelaide, Dec 12-16, 1986 scorecard

Last Test

Australia v Sri Lanka at Perth, Feb 12-15, 1988 scorecard

Test statistics

ODI debut

India v Australia at Hyderabad (Decc), Sep 24, 1986 scorecard

Last ODI

Australia v England at Melbourne, Feb 4, 1988 scorecard

ODI statistics

First-class span

1983/84 - 1988/89

List A span

1984/85 - 1987/88

Greg Dyer had a short career, but his most famous moment was one of the greatest in Australian cricket. The catch he took off Mike Gatting's infamous reverse sweep during the 1987 World Cup final at Calcutta was the wicket that tilted the match towards Australia. He was part of the side still in the early stages of Allan Border's hard school revival of Australia's fortunes, and although their success of the nineties was still some way off, that World Cup victory was a starting point. He did not get the chance bat on his Test debut - against England at Adelaide in 1986-87 - and was then subsequently dropped for the remaining two Tests before coming back into the team the following Australian summer. Dyer also has a place in the controversial history of Trans-Tasman cricket, after claiming a catch off Andrew Jones, at Melbourne, that he clearly dropped. For his state, New South Wales, he was part of the side that won back-to-back Sheffield Shield titles between 1984 and 1986. But the emergence of Ian Healy meant his international career was destined to be brief and he retired from state cricket in 1988-89. Andrew McGlashan (March 2005)