| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | David Charles Collins | |||
| Born | 1 October 1887 Wellington, New Zealand |
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| Died | 2 January 1967 (aged 79) Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||
| Role | Occasional wicket-keeper | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | FC | |||
| Matches | 53 | |||
| Runs scored | 2,604 | |||
| Batting average | 29.59 | |||
| 100s/50s | 6/9 | |||
| Top score | 172 | |||
| Balls bowled | 1,486 | |||
| Wickets | 32 | |||
| Bowling average | 27.18 | |||
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | |||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | |||
| Best bowling | 4/10 | |||
| Catches/stumpings | 33/1 | |||
| Source: [1], 1 May 2009 | ||||
Dr David Charles Collins (1 October 1887 – 2 January 1967) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played 53 first-class matches between 1905–06 and 1926–27, the bulk of these being for Wellington in New Zealand and Cambridge University in England; he won a blue for Cambridge and headed their batting averages in 1910.[1]
After leaving Cambridge, he returned to New Zealand, where his most successful years were with Wellington in the 1920s. It was during this decade that he scored four of his six first-class centuries, including the largest (and his last), 172 against Auckland in the 1924–25 Plunket Shield.[2]
Collins represented New Zealand during the MCC tour of 1922–23. At Christchurch he scored 102,[3] while at the Basin Reserve, as captain, he hit a second-innings 69.[4]
His father William Collins and his uncle John Collins had brief first-class careers.