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Full name Robert Smith Cunis
Born January 5, 1941, Whangarei, Northland
Died August 9, 2008, Whangarei, Northland (aged 67 years 217 days)
Major teams New Zealand,Auckland,Northern Districts
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Other Coach
Relations Son - SJ Cunis
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
100
50
6s
Ct
St
Tests
20
31
8
295
51
12.82
0
1
0
1
0
First-class
132
157
45
1849
111
16.50
1
30
0
List A
15
7
3
46
18
11.50
0
0
3
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
20
38
4250
1887
51
6/76
9/128
37.00
2.66
83.3
1
1
0
First-class
132
10287
386
7/29
26.65
18
2
List A
15
728
381
17
3/15
3/15
22.41
3.14
42.8
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
New Zealand v South Africa at Auckland, Mar 13-17, 1964 scorecard
Last Test
West Indies v New Zealand at Port of Spain, Apr 20-26, 1972 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class span
1960/61 - 1976/77
List A span
1969/70 - 1976/77
Profile
Once famously described as "neither one thing nor the other", Bob Cunis was an honest seamer and lower-order scrapper, who played 20 Tests for New Zealand between 1964 and 1972 with limited success. He made only one fifty and took only one five-for, the latter against England at Auckland in 1970-71, when he bowled Alan Knott four runs short of a second hundred in the match. Cunis went on to coach New Zealand for a time, before arthritic hips and knees quelled his natural enthusiasm, and in his playing days was also a very handy rugby three-quarter. In his professional life he was a schoolteacher.
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