Top wicket-keeper moves
By
BOB SCHUMACHER
A familiar face will be missing from the Burn-side-West University cricket team in the Canterbury association’s first grade championship this summer.
Absent will be the stalwart wicket-keeper, Kevin Collins, who has accepted an offer to be the player-coach for Meri-vale-Papanui in the Christchurch Suburban competition. MerivalePapanui won the senior B grade last season and won promotion to the premier grade for the 1986-87 season.
Collins’s first appearance in the senior club competition was with
East-Shirley in the 197273 season. He went to Bunttide-West the next
season and has kept wickets fpr that club for 13 successive seasons. He has been an extremely conscientious and reliable custodian, so much so that he has become the most successful wicket-keeper in the history of the senior club competition. His dismissals stand at . 332, nearly 100 more than the nearest rival, and the Chattel Hayes Memorial Trophy, for the ’keeper taking the most dismissals in a season, has been his on five occasions.
As well, Collins has captained his team for several seasons and has been more than a useful batsman, with almost . 2700 runs, and the abilityito be
belligerent or defiant Collins, aged 32, said yesterday that the appointment was for one season and he would reconsider his cricketing future after that. He had no thought of retirement, but for personal reasons the position appealed to him as it Involved just afternoon cricket
Although holding no coaching certificate, Collins, who said that his new club was well aware of that' fact has helped coach junior and schoolboy cricketers at Bum-side-West for many years. He felt that coaching would not present any real problems and that he was looking forward to the challenge.
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