About Warren Lees
Warren Kenneth Lees (born 19 March 1952) is a New Zealand cricketer and coach. He played 21 Test matches and 31 One Day Internationals (ODIs) between 1976 and 1983 as a wicket-keeper batsman. He was coach of the New Zealand national cricket team between 1990 and 1993. Lees was born at Dunedin in 1952 and educated at King's High School in the city. == Domestic career == Lees made his first-class debut in February 1971, playing for a New Zealand under-23 side against Auckland. He made his Otago debut in December 1971 and played for the province's representative side until the end of the 1987–88 season. He played 146 first-class matches and scored 4,932 runs as well as 81 List A matches, scoring 1,071 runs. In his final season as captain of Otago (1987–88), Otago won both the one-day and first-class competitions. == International career == Lees followed Ken Wadsworth into the New Zealand side and soon proved himself a capable wicketkeeper-batsman. In only his third Test, against Pakistan at Karachi in 1976–77, he made 152 at a time New Zealand were in deep trouble and followed with 46 in the second innings to save the match.
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