Former New Zealand cricket captain Martin Crowe, who retired 15 years ago, is to play club cricket later this year with the ultimate aim of playing first class cricket at the age of 49. Crowe, who made his first class debut as a 17-year-old in 1979, said on Friday he is to play for the Cornwall Cricket Club in Auckland with the aim of earning a recall to the Auckland side for the Plunket Shield competition.
"I have had a lot of text messages with just one word 'why'," Crowe, who turns 49 on September 22, told TVNZ's One News on Friday. "In what is probably a bit of mid-life crisis I have come up with a solution - trying to get fit and up to speed to play a competitive game of cricket again." Crowe has played 247 first-class games for Auckland, Central Districts, Wellington and Somerset, and scored 19,608 runs, which was a catalyst for his decision.
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