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Ross Taylor

Ross Taylor
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Taylor in 2010
Personal information
Full name Luteru Ross Poutoa Lote Taylor
Born (1984-03-08) 8 March 1984 (age 33)
Lower Hutt, Wellington,
New Zealand
Nickname Pallekele Plunderer, Rosco, Tuisi (Too Easy)
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm off break
Role Top-order batsman
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 234) 8 November 2007 v South Africa
Last Test 20 January 2017 v Bangladesh
ODI debut (cap 144) 1 March 2006 v West Indies
Last ODI 22 February 2017 v South Africa
ODI shirt no. 3
Domestic team information
Years Team
2003–present Central Districts
2008–2010 Royal Challengers Bangalore
2009–2010 Victoria
2010 Durham
2011 Rajasthan Royals
2012, 2014 Delhi Daredevils
2013 Pune Warriors India
2013–2014 Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel
2015 St Lucia Zouks
2016–present Sussex
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 80 178 145 228
Runs scored 6,015 6,052 9,797 7,820
Batting average 46.99 43.85 43.54 42.73
100s/50s 16/27 17/32 23/50 19/48
Top score 290 131* 290 132*
Balls bowled 96 42 684 318
Wickets 2 0 6 3
Bowling average 24.00 – 63.00 80.66
5 wickets in innings 0 – 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 2/4 – 2/4 1/13
Catches/stumpings 122/– 112/– 183/– 142/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 22 February 2017

Luteru Ross Poutoa Lote Taylor (born 8 March 1984), more commonly known as Ross Taylor, is a New Zealand cricketer and former national captain for all formats. He currently plays for cricket franchise Delhi Daredevils in the IPL. On 22 February 2017, Taylor scored his 17th ODI century, becoming the highest ODI century maker for New Zealand surpassing 16 by Nathan Astle.

Taylor is of part-Samoan descent, his mother being from Samoa and his father from New Zealand. Taylor was a hockey player before shifting his focus to cricket. Taylor is married to New Zealand women's cricketer Victoria Jayne Brown which was celebrated on 25 June 2011. They have a daughter named Mackenzie, who was born on 24 September 2011 and a son named Jonty who was born on 16 February 2014.

Taylor's full name is Luteru Ross Poutoa Lote Taylor; however, some sources have inaccurately recorded his name as Ross Luteru Taylor. This is because Taylor grew up answering to both Luteru and Ross when playing cricket, and did not realise he needed to write down his full name for the official New Zealand Cricket records when he was asked to fill in a questionnaire at a first-class match early in his career.

He previously captained the New Zealand Under-19 side in youth internationals. Taylor has a highest List A score of 132* in the State Shield domestic one-day competition in 2003–04, and a first class best of 290 against Australia in the 2015–16 Trans-Tasman Trophy Test series.

Taylor was picked up by the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 2008 Indian Premier League auction. An innings of note was a destructive 81* off 33 balls against the Kolkata Knight Riders in 2009. He was bumper hit in Royal Challengers Bangalore, he was loved for his powerful leg side shots. He had won many hearts of Royal Challengers Bangalore fans while playing for them.


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