Christopher Warren Flanagan (born 7 May 1964) is a former New Zealand

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er. He played in 21 first-class and 27

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matches for

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from 1986 to 1995. A left-arm medium-pace bowler and useful batsman in the lower order, Flanagan's best first-class bowling figures were 6 for 30 and 5 for 37 in Canterbury's 48-run victory over Auckland in December 1993. Eight of his eleven victims were out

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. Playing for High School Old Boys in the

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senior competition in 1996-97, Flanagan took figures of 10 for 8 in an innings against Sydenham, the best figures in the competition's history.''Annual Report 2021/21''
Christchurch Metropolitan Cricket Association, 2021, p. 70.

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