Brendan McCullum

Brendon McCullum

Personal information
Full name	Brendon Barrie McCullum
Born	(1981-09-27) 27 September 1981 (age 35) Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Nickname	Baz, B-Mac, Brendie, Mr. Fantastic, Bash Brothers (with Chris Lynn)
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right arm medium
Role	Opening Batsman, wicket-keeper, former New Zealand captain
Relations	Nathan McCullum (brother) Stuart McCullum (father) Elissa McCullum (wife)
International information
National side	New Zealand (2002-2016)
Test debut (cap 224)	10 March 2004 v South Africa
Last Test	20 February 2016 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 126)	17 January 2002 v Australia
Last ODI	8 February 2016 v Australia
ODI shirt no.	42
T20I debut (cap 5)	17 February 2005 v Australia
Last T20I	23 June 2015 v England
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1999–2003; 2007–present	Otago (squad no. 42)
2003–2006	Canterbury (squad no. 42)
2006	Glamorgan (squad no. 42)
2009	New South Wales (squad no. 42)
2008–2010; 2012–2013	Kolkata Knight Riders (squad no. 42)
2010	Sussex (squad no. 42)
2011	Kochi Tuskers Kerala (squad no. 42)
2011–2014; 2016—present	Brisbane Heat (squad no. 42)
2014–2015	Chennai Super Kings
2015	Warwickshire
2016	Middlesex
2016—present	Gujarat Lions
2017–present	Lahore Qalandars
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I LA Matches 101 260 71 305 Runs scored 6,453 6,083 2,140 7,140 Batting average 38.64 30.41 35.66 30.95 100s/50s 12/31 5/32 2/13 8/36 Top score 302 166 123 170 Balls bowled 175 – - – Wickets 1 – - – Bowling average 88 – - – 5 wickets in innings 0 – - – 10 wickets in match 0 n/a n/a n/a Best bowling 1/1 – - – Catches/stumpings 198/11 262/15 36/8 305/17
Source: Cricinfo, 2 May 2017

Brendon Barrie McCullum ONZM (born 27 September 1981), popularly Brendon "Baz" McCullum is a former New Zealand international cricketer, who played all formats and also a former captain in all forms. A big hitting legend in limited over cricket, McCullum took quick scoring to Test matches as well, notably recording the fastest test century of all time. He is considered as one of the most successful captains of New Zealand cricket.

McCullum is currently the leading career scorer in Twenty20 International cricket and is the first and so far only player to have scored two Twenty20 International centuries and 2000 runs in T20 Internationals. He became the first New Zealander to score a triple hundred in a Test, 302 runs against India on 18 February 2014. In 2014, he also became the first New Zealander to score 1000 test runs in a calendar year (1164). The record was bettered by Kane Williamson with 1172 runs in 2015. In his last Test outing on 20 February 2016, McCullum posted the fastest ever Test century, in 54 balls, beating the record jointly held by his hero, Vivian Richards and Misbah-ul-Haq, scoring a total of 145 off 79 balls.

He was the previous record holder for the highest individual score in a Twenty20 International (123 against Bangladesh in 2012) and second highest individual score in all Twenty20 cricket (158 not out for the Kolkata Knight Riders against the Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2008) which was later surpassed by Chris Gayle (175 against the Pune Warriors India) for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2013 edition of IPL . He played for the Kolkata Knight Riders from 2008–2010 and again from 2012–2013, while in between he played for the Kochi Tuskers Kerala. He played the 2014 and 2015 seasons for the Chennai Super Kings. McCullum was a wicket-keeper until 2013.