Neil Wagner
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| Full name | Neil Wagner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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13 March 1986 Pretoria, Transvaal Province, South Africa |
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| Nickname | Waggers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Left-arm medium-fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 256) | 25 July 2012 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 20 January 2017 v Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2006–2007 | Northerns | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–present | Otago (squad no. 11) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–present | Lancashire (squad no. 20) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Neil Wagner (born 13 March 1986) is a South African-born New Zealand cricketer who played for Northerns and now plays for New Zealand and Otago cricket teams.
He attended Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool as a high school student where he played for the 1st team. He is a left-handed batsman and left-arm medium-fast bowler who has toured Zimbabwe and Bangladesh with Academy sides and appeared in two Test matches as twelfth man. In June 2009 he was awarded a place in the New Zealand Emerging Players team under Peter Fulton. He has since played in 19 Test matches for New Zealand.
On 6 April 2011 Wagner took four wickets in four balls against Wellington when he dismissed Stewart Rhodes, Joe Austin-Smellie, Jeetan Patel and Ili Tugaga with the first four balls of the 70th over, his 14th. He then took the wicket of Mark Gillespie with the sixth ball of the same over: five wickets in one 6-ball over, the first (and, so far, only) time this has been achieved in first-class cricket. His bowling figures for the innings were 6/36, his personal best at that time.
Wagner came to the screen in Test cricket during Sri Lanka tour for New Zealand in late 2015. His form was very good throughout the series in all Tests. He was the strike bowler for Kiwis, as Tim Southee and Doug Bracewell were not fit to the series. Skipper Brendon McCullum described Wagner before the Test as "Workhorse". New Zealand comfortably won the series as well.
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