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Full name Brendon Barrie McCullum
Born September 27, 1981, Dunedin, Otago
Current age 26 years 233 days
Major teams New Zealand,Canterbury,Glamorgan,Kolkata Knight Riders,Otago
Playing role Wicketkeeper batsman
Batting style Right-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Relations Father - SJ McCullum,Brother - NL McCullum
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
32
51
3
1485
143
30.93
2326
63.84
2
8
186
17
95
6
ODIs
128
104
21
2280
96
27.46
2564
88.92
0
12
195
64
143
13
T20Is
15
15
2
299
45
23.00
246
121.54
0
0
30
12
9
3
First-class
70
118
7
3655
160
32.92
6
19
194
13
List A
166
137
25
3084
170
27.53
2
15
179
14
Twenty20
35
35
4
926
158*
29.87
588
157.48
1
3
90
47
18
3
Bowling averages
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BBM
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4w
5w
10
Tests
32
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ODIs
128
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15
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70
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List A
166
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Twenty20
35
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Career statistics
Test debut
New Zealand v South Africa at Hamilton, Mar 10-14, 2004 scorecard
Last Test
New Zealand v England at Napier, Mar 22-26, 2008 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Australia v New Zealand at Sydney, Jan 17, 2002 scorecard
Last ODI
New Zealand v England at Christchurch, Feb 23, 2008 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut
New Zealand v Australia at Auckland, Feb 17, 2005 scorecard
Last T20I
New Zealand v England at Christchurch, Feb 7, 2008 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut
1999/00
Last First-class
England Lions v New Zealanders at Southampton, May 8-11, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2000/01
Last List A
Auckland v Otago at Auckland, Mar 2, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
New Zealand v Australia at Auckland, Feb 17, 2005 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Kolkata Knight Riders v Mumbai Indians at Kolkata, Apr 29, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Brendon McCullum has stepped up to the national side as a wicketkeeper-batsman after an outstanding career in international youth cricket, where he proved capable of dominating opposition attacks. He found it hard to replicate that at the highest level at first, although there were occasional fireworks at domestic level. But he finally made his mark in England in 2004, with 200 runs in the Test series, including an entertaining 96 at Lord's. After that near-miss he finally brought up his maiden century in Bangladesh in October, with 143 at Dhaka. He added another hundred in the two-day victory over Zimbabwe in August 2005, and now needs to reproduce that form against the stronger teams. McCullum first made the New Zealand one-day side as a batsman, in the 2001-02 VB Series in Australia, where he made the acquaintance of Brett Lee, who has since let him have more than one beamer, to widespread outrage. Two years later McCullum, by now keeping wicket, forced his way past Robbie Hart into the Test side for the 2003-04 series against South Africa.
At Napier in April 2005 he narrowly missed another Test century, falling lbw to Lasith Malinga for 99 in the match where Malinga's low-slung action caused several batsmen to complain that they were "losing" the ball in the umpires' trousers. But McCullum biffed two sixes and ten fours in that innings, and had onlookers murmuring the name Gilchrist. He showed the occasional glimpse of his power during the 2007 World Cup, such as a 20-ball half-century against Canada, but an average of 23 didn't do his talent justice.
McCullum bounced back with a series of energetic half-centuries towards the end of the year, the highlight of which was an unbeaten 80 from 28 balls against Bangladesh on the last day of the year. His big-hitting continued during a five-match ODI series with England at home, where he hit 261runs at a strike-rate of 128.57. In February, McCullum was bought for US$700,000, the biggest winner from New Zealand, by the Indian Premier League's Kolkata franchise and launched the tournament with an unbeaten 158, the highest total in Twenty20 cricket. Cricinfo staff February 2008
