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Brendon McCullum

Brendon McCullum
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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 or Middle Order Batsman, former wicket-keeper
Relations Nathan McCullum (brother)
Stuart McCullum (father)
Elissa McCullum (wife)
International information
National side
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
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)
2012–2015 Chennai Super Kings
2015 Warwickshire
2016 Middlesex
2016—present Gujarat Lions
2017–present Lahore Qalandars
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 101 260 146 305
Runs scored 6,453 6,083 8,902 7,140
Batting average 38.64 30.41 36.93 30.38
100s/50s 12/31 5/32 16/45 8/36
Top score 302 166 302 170
Balls bowled 175 259
Wickets 1 1
Bowling average 88 140
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 1/1 1/1
Catches/stumpings 198/11 262/15 300/19 305/17
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 24 February 2016

Brendon Barrie McCullum ONZM (born 27 September 1981) is a New Zealand cricketer who currently plays professionally with the Otago Volts at provincial level, the Lahore Qalandars in Pakistan Super League, the Brisbane Heat in Australia's Big Bash League, the Gujarat Lions in the IPL and the Trinbago Knight Riders in the CPL. He previously captained New Zealand in all three forms of the international game. 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.

His brother Nathan McCullum was also a first-class and international cricketer, and their father Stuart McCullum was a long-serving first-class player for Otago. Both Brendon and Nathan attended King's High School in Dunedin.

McCullum is 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 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.


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