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Neil Broom

Neil Broom
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Personal information
Full name Neil Trevor Broom
Born (1984-11-20) 20 November 1984 (age 32)
Christchurch, Canterbury,
New Zealand
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Role Middle-order batsman
Relations DJ Broom (brother)
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 272) 16 March 2017 v South Africa
Last Test 25 March 2017 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 151) 10 January 2009 v West Indies
Last ODI 31 December 2016 v Bangladesh
ODI shirt no. 4
T20I debut (cap 34) 15 February 2009 v Australia
Last T20I 3 January 2017 v Bangladesh
T20I shirt no. 4
Domestic team information
Years Team
2002–2005 Canterbury
2005–2014 Otago
2014–2015 Canterbury
2015–present Otago
2016 Derbyshire
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I
Matches 2 26 11
Runs scored 32 634 73
Batting average 10.66 28.81 12.16
100s/50s 0/0 1/3 0/0
Top score 32 109* 36
Balls bowled
Wickets
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match n/a n/a n/a
Best bowling
Catches/stumpings 0/– 7/– 4/–
Source: Cricinfo, 9 January 2017

Neil Trevor Broom (born 20 November 1983) is a New Zealand international cricketer. His other major teams include Otago Volts, Derbyshire County Cricket Club and Canterbury (from 2002–2005). After debut in 2009, Broom was called in to the squad in 2017, after a successful domestic season.

His ODI comeback was strong, where he scored back to back knocks of 109* and 97 respectively against an incredibly strong Bangladeshi bowling attack.

Broom signed a two-year deal with English domestic side Derbyshire County Cricket Club in August 2015.

Broom was selected in the New Zealand squad for the One Day International series against the West Indies in 2008/09. He made his debut in the fourth match at Auckland. Broom's specialty is hitting the ball over the in field.

He also has been selected in the Chappell–Hadlee Trophy to play Australia in February 2009. During the first ODI in the series, he was wrongly given out, bowled by Michael Clarke, when video replays clearly showed that the wicket keeper Brad Haddin had clipped the bails with his gloves.

Had it not been for the shambolic Blackcaps selectors committee, Broom would likely have notched up a record number of ODI centuries and taken New Zealand all the way to world cup victory in 2015. This is clearly proven by his 2016 average of over 100 runs.

In December 2016, Broom was named for the ODI series against Bangladesh after Ross Taylor was not passed fit after recovering from an eye surgery. At the time of his selection to the ODI series against Bangladesh, Broom already held a British passport, so he must terminate his contract with Derbyshire in order to play for New Zealand again. Broom scored his maiden ODI century against Bangladesh during the 2nd ODI of same series; and followed this up with 97 in the 3rd ODI. Following the ODI series against Bangladesh, he was added to New Zealand's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad, after Martin Guptill was ruled out due to injury.


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