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Full name Gregory Charles Dyer
Born March 16, 1959, Parramatta, Sydney, New South Wales
Current age 49 years 247 days
Major teams Australia,New South Wales
Batting style Right-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
6
6
0
131
60
21.83
307
42.67
0
1
11
0
22
2
ODIs
23
13
2
174
45*
15.81
227
76.65
0
0
8
4
24
4
First-class
51
66
8
1671
106
28.81
1
10
123
18
List A
43
27
7
408
52*
20.40
0
1
39
9
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
ODIs
23
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
51
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
List A
43
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
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Career statistics
Test debut
Australia v England at Adelaide, Dec 12-16, 1986 scorecard
Last Test
Australia v Sri Lanka at Perth, Feb 12-15, 1988 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
India v Australia at Hyderabad (Decc), Sep 24, 1986 scorecard
Last ODI
Australia v England at Melbourne, Feb 4, 1988 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1983/84 - 1988/89
List A span
1984/85 - 1987/88
Profile
Greg Dyer had a short career, but his most famous moment was one of the greatest in Australian cricket. The catch he took off Mike Gatting's infamous reverse sweep during the 1987 World Cup final at Calcutta was the wicket that tilted the match towards Australia. He was part of the side still in the early stages of Allan Border's hard school revival of Australia's fortunes, and although their success of the nineties was still some way off, that World Cup victory was a starting point. He did not get the chance bat on his Test debut - against England at Adelaide in 1986-87 - and was then subsequently dropped for the remaining two Tests before coming back into the team the following Australian summer. Dyer also has a place in the controversial history of Trans-Tasman cricket, after claiming a catch off Andrew Jones, at Melbourne, that he clearly dropped. For his state, New South Wales, he was part of the side that won back-to-back Sheffield Shield titles between 1984 and 1986. But the emergence of Ian Healy meant his international career was destined to be brief and he retired from state cricket in 1988-89. Andrew McGlashan (March 2005)
