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Full name John Geoffrey Wright
Born July 5, 1954, Darfield, Canterbury
Current age 54 years 99 days
Major teams New Zealand,Auckland,Canterbury,Derbyshire,Northern Districts
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Other Coach
Relations Father - GT Wright
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
6s
Ct
St
Tests
82
148
7
5334
185
37.82
12
23
10
38
0
ODIs
149
148
1
3891
101
26.46
6804
57.18
1
24
51
0
First-class
366
636
44
25073
192
42.35
59
126
192
0
List A
349
345
13
10240
108
30.84
6
68
108
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
82
3
30
5
0
-
-
-
1.00
-
0
0
0
ODIs
149
3
24
8
0
-
-
-
2.00
-
0
0
0
First-class
366
370
339
2
1/4
169.50
5.49
185.0
0
0
List A
349
42
18
1
1/8
1/8
18.00
2.57
42.0
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
New Zealand v England at Wellington, Feb 10-15, 1978 scorecard
Last Test
New Zealand v Australia at Auckland, Mar 12-16, 1993 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
England v New Zealand at Scarborough, Jul 15, 1978 scorecard
Last ODI
Sri Lanka v New Zealand at Colombo (PSS), Dec 12, 1992 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1975/76 - 1992/93
List A span
1976/77 - 1992/93
Profile
Even before he embarked on the second leg of his career, as a hard-driven and hugely respected coach of India, John Wright was already renowned for his fighting qualities, allied to no little skill, that had enabled him to become the first Kiwi batsman to pass 4000 Test runs. A left-handed opening batsman with a sound defensive technique and a full array of strokes, Wright was an integral member of the 1980s New Zealand team that achieved notable overseas successes against England and Australia, and his century against Sri Lanka in 1990-91 meant that he scored a hundred against all six of his then-Test opponents (South Africa, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh later returned or joined the fold). It was the one that got away that was perhaps the most memorable, however. At Christchurch in 1991-92, he was one away from what should have been a matchsaving century, when he charged down the pitch at Phil Tufnell, and was stumped. Tufnell proceeded to scythe through the lower order, and England won by an innings and four runs with just minutes of the match to spare. Andrew Miller (November 2004)
