Grahame Bilby

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Grahame Bilby New Zealand (NZ)

Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	-
	Tests	First-class
Matches	2	57
Runs scored	55	2936
Batting average	13.75	32.62
100s/50s	-/-	3/15
Top score	28	161
Balls bowled	-	126
Wickets	-	1
Bowling average	-	34.00
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	-
Best bowling	-	1/2
Catches/stumpings	3/-	55/-
Test debut: 25 February 1966 Last Test: 4 March 1966 Source: [1]

Grahame Paul Bilby (b. 7 May 1941) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in two Tests against the English cricket team, in Christchurch and Dunedin in 1965-66. Both Tests were drawn.

As a Test opener, Bilby was fairly unspectacular, making 28 and 3 in the first Test and 3 and 21 in the second, giving himself a career batting average of 13.75. He was caught behind in three of those dismissals and caught once. He took three catches in those matches also.

Bilby also played for Wellington, with whom he made 161 against Otago earlier in the 1965-66 season and which probably earned him his Test debut. In his first-class career]] he played in 57 matches, with a respectable 32.63 average, and which included 3 centuries and 15 fifties.

With a career spanning 1962-63 to 1975-76, he was named New Zealand Cricket Almanack Player of the Year in 1974.