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Colin Bland
South Africa (RSA)
Colin Bland
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling type Right-arm medium
Tests First-class
Matches 21 131
Runs scored 1669 7249
Batting average 49. The South African cricket team, also known as The Proteas are a national Cricket team representing South Africa Mike Powell cricketerjpg|thumb|200px| Warwickshire batsman Mike Powell]] A batsman in the sport of Cricket is depending on context Any In the sport of Cricket there are two broad categories of bowlers: pace bowlers and spin bowlers Test cricket is the longest form of the Sport of Cricket. It has long been considered the ultimate test of playing ability between cricketing nations First-class cricket refers to the class of Cricket matches of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players and officially adjudged first-class by Batting average is a Statistic in both Cricket and Baseball measuring the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters, respectively 08 37. 95
100s/50s 3/9 13/34
Top score 144* 197
Balls bowled 394 3508
Wickets 2 43
Bowling average 62. In the sport of Cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings Meanings of wicket Set of stumps Primarily the wicket Bowling average is a Statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the Sport of Cricket. 50 35. 27
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 2/16 4/40
Catches/stumpings 10/- 51/-

Test debut: 8 December 1961
Last Test: 23 December 1966
Source: Cricinfo

Kenneth Colin Bland, (born April 5, 1938 in Bulawayo, Rhodesia) was a cricketer who played for South Africa. An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of Sports &ndash most notably Cricket and Baseball during For other uses see Stump (disambiguation Stump is a term used in the Sport of Cricket where has three different meanings Events 1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room the second public library of Europe. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 962 - Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Events 456 - St Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe, after the capital Harare, with a population of 676000 (UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator Zimbabwe 2005 now estimated Rhodesia was the name adopted when the formerly British colony of Southern Rhodesia declared itself independent ( Unilateral Declaration of Independence Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries The South African cricket team, also known as The Proteas are a national Cricket team representing South Africa

Bland originally came from Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe but then not a Test cricket- playing nation. Rhodesia was the name adopted when the formerly British colony of Southern Rhodesia declared itself independent ( Unilateral Declaration of Independence See also Great Zimbabwe National Monument. For information about the March and June 2008 presidential elections see Zimbabwean presidential election Test cricket is the longest form of the Sport of Cricket. It has long been considered the ultimate test of playing ability between cricketing nations He also played for the South African provincial sides Eastern Province and Orange Free State. Eastern Province cricket team is the team representing the Eastern Province in domestic First-class cricket in South Africa. The Orange Free State cricket team (now simply Free State cricket team) is the First-class cricket team representing the Province of Orange Free State A tall and elegant right-handed batsman, Bland broke into the South African Test team in 1961, and was a regular until 1966. As South Africa in the apartheid era played Test cricket only against England, Australia and New Zealand, his career was restricted to just 21 Tests, in which he scored 1,669 runs, including three centuries.

Bland's chief fame, though, rested on his fielding. By common consent the finest cover fieldsman of his time, and rated by some as the finest ever, he was able to the turn the course of whole matches. His spectacular run out of Ken Barrington in the Lord's Test of 1965, followed by a similar dismissal of Jim Parks, may have prevented England from establishing a match-winning first innings lead, the match eventually being drawn. For the term run out, used in equestrian sport see Refusal Run out is a method of dismissal in the Sport Kenneth Frank Barrington, generally known as Ken or Kenny was an English Cricketer who played for the English Test team and Surrey County Cricket Club. Lord's Cricket Ground (generally known as Lord's) is a cricket James ("Jim" Michael Parks (born October 21, 1931) was a successful English Cricketer.

Bland was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1966. The Wisden Cricketers of the Year are Cricketers selected for the honour by the annual publication Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, based primarily on their


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