| Graham Bunyard | |
| Country: | South Africa |
| Fullname: | Graham Stuart Bunyard |
| Birth Date: | 17 October 1939 |
| Birth Place: | Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa |
| Death Place: | Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm fast |
| Club1: | Transvaal |
| Year1: | 1959–60 to 1960–61 |
| Club2: | Rhodesia |
| Year2: | 1962–63 |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 14 |
| Runs1: | 192 |
| Bat Avg1: | 13.71 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
| Top Score1: | 35 |
| Deliveries1: | 2358 |
| Wickets1: | 48 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 22.54 |
| Fivefor1: | 1 |
| Tenfor1: | 0 |
| Best Bowling1: | 5/35 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 7/– |
| Date: | 13 May 2018 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/44140.html Cricinfo |
Graham Stuart Bunyard (17 October 1939 – 10 May 2018) was a South African cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1959 to 1963.
A fast bowler, Bunyard made his first-class debut for Transvaal in the 1959–60 season, on the day before he turned 20. His first two wickets were Denis Compton and Godfrey Evans.[1] In his third match he took 5 for 35 against Rhodesia.[2] He finished the season with 23 wickets in seven matches at an average of 21.78.[3] He was one of the pace bowlers considered for selection for the tour to England in 1960 and later as a replacement during the tour when Geoff Griffin could no longer bowl, but he was not selected.[4]
Bunyard took 16 wickets at 24.31 in five matches in 1960–61 and toured England in 1961 with the South African Fezela XI of promising young players. He took 3 for 48 and 3 for 42 to help the Fezelas to an innings victory in the first-class match against Combined Services.[5] However, he played only one more first-class match, for Rhodesia two years later, when he was still only 23 years old. His last three wickets were Norm O'Neill, John Reid and Bill Alley.[6]
Bunyard became a tobacco farmer in Schagen, about 20 kilometres west of Nelspruit, in north-eastern Transvaal.[7]