Full name Graham Stuart Bunyard 1962-63 Rhodesia Batting style Right-handed Name Graham Bunyard | Bowling style Right-arm fast Role Cricket Player 1959-60 to 1960-61 Transvaal | |
Born 17 October 1939 (age 84) ( 1939-10-17 ) Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa | ||
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Graham Stuart Bunyard (born 17 October 1939, Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1959 to 1963.
A fast bowler, Bunyard made his first-class debut for Transvaal in the 1959-60 season, on the day before he turned 20. His first two wickets were Denis Compton and Godfrey Evans. In his third match he took 5 for 35 against Rhodesia. He finished the season with 23 wickets in seven matches at an average of 21.78. He was one of the pace bowlers considered for selection for the tour to England in 1960 and later as a replacement during the tour when Geoff Griffin could no longer bowl, but was not selected.
Bunyard took 16 wickets at 24.31 in five matches in 1960-61 and toured England in 1961 with the South African Fezela XI of promising young players. He took 3 for 48 and 3 for 42 to help the Fezelas to an innings victory over Combined Services. However, he played only one more first-class match, for Rhodesia two years later, when he was still only 23 years old. His last three wickets were Norm O'Neill, John Reid and Bill Alley.
He became a tobacco farmer in Schagen, about 20 kilometres west of Nelspruit, in north-eastern Transvaal.