Nick Beard is a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. He is a left-handed batsman and left-arm slow bowler who plays for Otago. He was born in Dunedin

Dunedin

Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...

 He went to Kavanagh College

Kavanagh College

Kavanagh College is a Catholic Secondary school in Dunedin, New Zealand. The school in its present form dates from 1989 but its origins as a secondary school go back to 1871....

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Beard played for New Zealand Under-19s in the Under-19 World Cup in 2008, playing in two warm-up matches and five Youth One Day matches in the competition.

Beard made two Test appearances and two Under-19 One-Day matches against England in a 2008 tour.

Having played for Otago's Second XI in January 2009, Beard made his first-class debut two months later, against Auckland.

Nick was educated at Kavanagh College, Dunedin.

External links

• Nick Beard at Cricket Archive