Kevin Burns

Kevin James Burns (7 July 1960 – 20 May 2024) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played 58 first-class and 31 List A matches, all but one of them for Otago, between the 1980–81 and 1991–92 seasons.

Burns was born at Invercargill in 1960. He played for Southland in a December 1977 Hawke Cup match against Central Otago at Balclutha, and went on to play a total of 28 Hawke Cup matches for the team, with his final appearance in 1992. He captained Southland when they held the Hawke Cup between 1989 and 1992. He played for Otago age-group teams before making his representative debut for the senior Otago team in December 1980 against Wellington at Molyneux Park in Alexandra.

Primarily a batsman, Burns played in a total of 58 first-class matches and scored a total of 2,729 runs at a batting average of 29.03 runs per innings, including three centuries.