[4] Cunis played his first Test against the visiting South Africans at the end of the 1963–64 season, taking two wickets (Graeme Pollock and Denis Lindsay) in a drawn match.

[6] In the First Test, when New Zealand were 32 for 8 in the second innings, "Cunis, a well-built Rugby centre-threequarter, saved the day by defending successfully through the last thirty-five minutes" in a partnership with Vic Pollard.

[10] Cunis's jaw was broken while batting for New Zealand against Western Australia in Perth in the Australasian one-day competition in January 1971, but he played in the two Tests against England that began a few weeks later.

[14] Dick Brittenden wrote that Cunis's cricket career was plagued by knee injury that affected his bowling.

"His inability to move really freely gave him in his run-up the lurching gait of a drunken sailor; and [he] seemed to bowl from the wrong foot, to add to his enchantment.

"[16] However, according to his Wisden obituary, the witticism was probably first coined by Alan Ross in a report in The Observer of the New Zealanders' match against Sussex in 1969.