Gordon Burgess

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Gordon Charles Burgess, OBE (4 October 1918 – 3 September 2000), was a New Zealand cricket player and administrator.

Biography

Burgess was born in Waihi in 1918. He played seven first-class matches for Auckland. He was a member of the New Zealand Cricket Council from 1962 to 1971, and was its president from 1976 to 1983. He died in Auckland in 2000.^[1]

In the 1989 New Year Honours, Burgess was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to cricket.^[2]

He was the father of New Zealand Test cricketer Mark Burgess.

References

↑ Gordon Burgess profile. Cricinfo. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
↑ London Gazette (supplement), No. 51580, 30 December 1988. Retrieved 12 January 2013.

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Name	Burgess, Gordon Charles
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Short description	New Zealand cricketer
Date of birth	1918
Place of birth
Date of death	2000
Place of death

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