deliveries columns catches/stumpings year tenfor bowling country fivefor batting image name lasttestyear column international source runs testdebutyear wickets s/s matches article_title
17514 384 2 54/0 3/0 1955 2 n/a right-arm off-break new zealand 15 0 left-handed batsman cricket_no_pic . png gren alabaster 1976 first-class list a true http://cricketarchive.com/archive/players/11/11498/11498.html cricket archive 3200 123 1955 275 9 3/14 0/0 96 10 gren alabaster

gren alabaster

grenville david alabaster -lrb- born 10 december 1933 in invercargill -rrb- is a former new zealand first class cricketer for otago , canterbury and northern districts .
a winner of the new zealand cricket almanack player of the year award in 1972 , alabaster was a right-arm off-break bowler .
he represented new zealand on occasions , including the tour to australia in 1973-74 , but never in an official test match .
his brother jack alabaster played 21 tests .
gren alabaster took 8/30 for northern districts against new zealand under-23s in march 1963 .
this established a new record for the side in first-class cricket , beating don clarke 's 8/37 of just two months previously .
alabaster 's mark stood for less than a year , until maurice langdon claimed 8/21 against auckland in january 1964 .
in a first-class career stretching from 1955-56 to 1975-76 he took 275 wickets at 23.24 , and made 3200 runs at 23.88 , with three centuries including a highest score of 108 for otago against central districts at wanganui in 1964-65 .
his most successful season with the ball was 1974-75 ; despite turning 41 during the season he took 34 wickets at 20.11 and helped otago to victory in the plunket shield .
he also played 31 matches for southland and thames valley in the hawke cup between 1961 and 1979 .
he captained southland during their reign as title-holders between 1973 and 1977 .
when a hawke cup `` team of the century '' was selected to mark the centenary of the competition in 2011 , he was named as the captain .
he made his career in teaching , finishing as principal of waiau college in tuatapere .
