Christopher James Robert "Sam" Black (born 15 December 1947) is a South African former cricketer who played for Middlesex from 1970 to 1973.
In 1966, his final year, he made 473 runs at an average of 43.00 and took 45 wickets at 9.95,[2] and was selected to play for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) Schools XI against Combined Services at Lord's.
In Wisden's Public Schools report, E.M. Wellings said Black's "bowling was too fast for most schoolboys and his striking too vigorous for most opposing bowlers".
[5] A few days earlier he had hit his only first-class fifty, 71 against Hampshire, when he "thrashed the new ball so fiercely that he scored at well over a run a minute".
[8] Despite making 609 runs at 35.82 and taking 40 wickets at 15.27 for Middlesex Second XI in 1973,[9] he left county cricket after the season.