Mark Wellings Priest (born 12 August 1961) is a former New Zealand international

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er who played in three

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and 18

One Day International A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours. The Cricket World Cup ...

s (ODIs) between 1990 and 1998. He was the leading wicket-taker for

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, with 290 dismissals, until Todd Astle went past his total in February 2019. Priest was born at

Greymouth Greymouth () ( Māori: ''Māwhera'') is the largest town in the West Coast region in the South Island of New Zealand, and the seat of the Grey District Council. The population of the whole Grey District is , which accounts for % of the West Coas ...

, West Coast.

Personal life and family

His nephew, Henry Shipley, has also played cricket for Canterbury and New Zealand.

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* 1961 births Living people New Zealand Test cricketers New Zealand One Day International cricketers New Zealand cricketers Canterbury cricketers Cricketers from Greymouth South Island cricketers {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1960s-stub