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Christopher Finch

New Zealand cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ25748640 ↗
Source-derived summary

Christopher John William Finch (born 23 June 1975) is a New Zealand former cricketer. He played three first-class and 24 List A matches for Otago between the 1993–94 and 1995–96 seasons.

Finch was born at Balclutha in 1975 and educated at Otago Boys' High School in Dunedin. Before making his senior debut he played under-19 One Day International matches for New Zealand.

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“Christopher Finch” enters the record as new Zealand cricketer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Christopher, Finch and Zealand can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 1993, 1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Christopher, Finch and Zealand.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25748640. The first chronological checks are 1975, 1993 and 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “Christopher Finch” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.