Steve Wundke Cricketer
Stephen Christopher Wundke (born 2 July 1961) is a former Australian cricketer. Wundke was a left-handed batsman who bowled both slow left-arm orthodox and left-arm fast-medium. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. Wundke came to England, where in 1981 he trialled with the Leicestershire Second XI, but was not given a contract by the county after making nine appearances in that season for the seconds. The following year he signed for Cheshire, making his debut for the county in the Minor Counties Championship against Shropshire. In that same season he made his List A debut against Middlesex in the 1st round of the NatWest Trophy. He again played Minor counties cricket for Cheshire in the 1983 season, making two appearances in the Minor Counties Championship and two appearances in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. Returning to Australia at the end of that season, Wundke made his debut for South Australia in a List A match in the 1983/84 McDonald's Cup against Victoria. He made fourteen further List A appearances for South Australia, the last of which came against Tasmania in the 1986/87 McDonald's Cup. In his 15 List A matches for the state, he scored 266 runs at an average of 26.60, with a high score of 54 not out. This score, which was his only List A fifty, came against Tasmania in the 1986/87 McDonald's Cup. With the ball, he took 21 wickets at a bowling average of 22.33, with best figures of 5/24. These figures, which were his only five wicket haul in any form of the game, came against the New Zealand team Central Districts in the 1986/87 McDonald's Cup. During the 5 January 1985 McDonald's Cup match against Western Australia, Wundke took a catch to dismiss Kim Hughes that was classed as one of the best of the summer. Fielding at midwicket, Wundke "swooped, knocked the ball up with his right hand, reverse-swooped, and plucked it on the way down with his left. " His first-class debut for South Australia came in the 1985/86 Sheffield Shield against Tasmania. He made just five further first-class appearances, the last of which came against New South Wales in the 1986/87 Sheffield Shield. In his six first-class matches, he scored 248 runs at an average of 24.80, with a high score of 42. With the ball, he took just a single wicket, which came at an overall cost of 88 runs. The 1986/87 season was his last playing for South Australia. In the 1989 season, Wundke returned to England, where until 1992 he played as a professional for Stockport Cricket Club in the Central Lancashire League. In 1991 he scored 1,217 runs and took 100 wickets in a season, the first Stockport player to record the feat since Test cricketer Colin McCool in 1955. Having last played for Cheshire in 1984, he returned to the county in 1996, playing a single Minor Counties Championship match against Wales Minor Counties. Two further appearances against Cornwall and Wiltshire came in the 1998 competition, with Wundke making his final Minor Counties Championship appearance against Berkshire in 1999. The season prior to that, he made his final List A appearance against Essex in the 1998 NatWest Trophy.