527:. He began well, hitting centuries against New South Wales and South Australia and gathering 360 runs at 60.00 and 5 wickets at 24.20 before the First Test. He was not able to carry this success into the Tests, however, and after the first two Tests, in which he scored 66 runs and took 2 wickets, he never played Tests again.
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Zealand cricket in 1967β68 with enhanced bowling skills, but it was not until 1968β69 that he began to exploit them at first-class level. He scored 401 runs at 50.12 and took 6 wickets at 22.33 that season without making the Test side against the West Indies or the touring side to
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for the third wicket. Earlier he had taken his career-best figures of 6 for 40, off 29 overs, against Otago in
Dunedin, which he followed with an innings of 82 out of 136 for 8 to enable Central Districts to escape with a draw after they had lost their first four wickets for 9.
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by 230 runs on the first innings. In his next game, in the 1962β63 season, also against
Canterbury, he hit 150, which remained his highest first-class score. He was selected for the Second and Third Tests against England later that season, making 31, 10, 21 and 8.
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Central Districts for the first time, Shrimpton scored 461 runs at 46.10 and took 8 wickets at 16.75, and was selected for the final representative match against the Australians, when he scored 75 in "a handsome innings" and put on 151 with
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He scored 283 runs at 23.58 and took 9 wickets at 28.11 in 1970β71, and played in the two Tests against
England. Using his googly effectively, he took his best Test figures of 3 for 35, all bowled, in the first innings of the First Test, including
482:. In 1966 he made 679 runs at 33.95 and took 47 wickets at 16.89, playing with "splendid consistency" and in 1967 his 423 runs at 26.44 and 61 wickets at 10.34 took Royton to second on the final table. He played two matches for
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a fortnight later and made 58 and 46. He opened for New
Zealand in the three Tests against England that followed, but made only 68 runs, including 38 in the first innings of the Second Test, when he made the second-top score.
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Shrimpton continued to play New
Zealand domestic cricket until his retirement after the 1979β80 season. He captained Central Districts in 1969β70, 1972β73, and from 1976β77 to 1978β79.
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He scored 322 runs at 29.27 and took 15 wickets at 17.66 in 1972β73. He was not selected for the Tests against
Pakistan and once again missed the tour to England, but he did tour
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Shrimpton's first first-class century came in the last match of his debut season in 1961β62, when he scored 119, helping to save the game after
Central Districts had trailed
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In 2007 he was awarded the Bert Sutcliffe Medal for outstanding service to New Zealand cricket. He died on 13 June 2015.
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