| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Grahame Paul Bilby | ||
| Date of birth | 7 May 1941 | ||
| Place of birth | New Zealand | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| ante 1964–1970 | Seatoun | ||
| 1971–? | Wellington City | ||
| National team | |||
| 1967-1971 | New Zealand | 8 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | - | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | New Zealand | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Tests | First-class | ||
| Matches | 2 | 57 | ||
| Runs scored | 55 | 2936 | ||
| Batting average | 13.75 | 32.62 | ||
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 3/15 | ||
| Top score | 28 | 161 | ||
| Balls bowled | - | 126 | ||
| Wickets | - | 1 | ||
| Bowling average | - | 34.00 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | - | 0 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | - | 0 | ||
| Best bowling | - | 1/2 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 3/- | 55/- | ||
| Source: Cricinfo, | ||||
Grahame Paul Bilby (born 7 May 1941 in Wellington) is a former cricketer and association football player who represented both the Black Caps and the All Whites.[1][2]
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Bilby 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.[1]
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.[1]
Bilby made his full All Whites debut in a 0-4 loss to New Caledonia on 8 November 1967[3] and ended his international playing career with 8 A-international caps and 1 goal to his credit,[2][4] his final cap a substitute appearance in a 2-4 loss, also to New Caledonia, on 18 July 1971.[3]