Popular cricket players of New Zealand cricket team: Ian David Smith
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Popular cricket players of New Zealand cricket team: Ian David Smith
Ian David Smith, a right handed batsman and a right arm bowler, is known as a popular ex-player of the New Zealand cricket team. He was initially a cricket player and a wicket keeper through the course of 80s and part of the 90s, but turned into a commentator in the later part of his career.
Smith is recognized as a player to have made the highest ever strike rates made by a batsman for ODIs: 99 runs per 100 balls. He also gained much popularity from his highest score (173 runs from 136 balls) in Tests for a batsman who came at no.9 in the playing list: a score made against India in 1990. During the course of the innings, Smith also emerged as the joint holder for the record of maximum runs scored in a six-ball Test over wherein he made a hit of 24 runs off one over from Atul Wassan which is looked upon as the optimum moment in his career. In 1991-92 season, he made 7 catches against Sri Lanka in an innings.
Today, Ian David Stockley Smith appears on Live Sport as a radio announcer alongside being a commentator and breakfast host for Sky Sports.
Famous cricket player of New Zealand cricket team: Gavin Rolf Larsen
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Larsen, a specialist in the economic bowling, was an asset for the New Zealand cricket team. He is a renowned former cricketer of NZ who always held an outstanding economy rate of bowling in One Day International Cricket i.e. 3.76 – the average being usually between 4 and 4.50 in his 121 One Day Internationals over a period of 10 years.
Gavin Rolf Larsen played a total of 8 Test cricket with impressive success rate which included 24 wickets. Not only this, he was a reliable and contributive batsman alongside being a trustworthy bowler. He held a good standing in one-day side and for the World Cup semi-final in 1999, Larsen played a highly significant role by being a part of the New Zealand cricket team. It was very unusual of a NZ player to have played cricket throughout the course of his first-class playing career with only one team i.e. Wellington.
Larsen also captained the New Zealand cricket team in the 1994 Australasian Cup in Sharjah where he promoted the team to reach the semi-finals of a 6-team tournament. Today, he is working as the CEO of Cricket Wellington and is still affiliated with the cricket arena. Gavin Rolf Larsen is one of the best and most economical New Zealand bowlers.
Popular cricket player of New Zealand cricket team: Christopher Lance Cairns
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Christopher Lance Cairns, an ONZM, is an ex all-rounder of the New Zealand International cricket team, the Black Caps. He played in Test and ODIs for the NZ team along with starring for the Canterbury New Zealand domestic championship side.
Cairns holds the honor of captaining the Black Caps over seven occasions and was referred by the renowned Shane Warne as the best all-rounder existing in the world. He exited the world of his Test career with a bowling average of 29.40 and a batting average of 35.52. He was also selected as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 2000. As a batsman, Cairns was quite a fearsome player as he hit sixes in a successive manner. On the other hand, when it comes to his earlier days, he was referred to as a reliable fast-medium bowler.
As a bowler, Cairns experienced his career-best feat in a Test in 1998 against West Indies with a 7/27. He is also recognized as his team’s 3rd highest wicket-taker during Tests. Cairns retired from his Test team in 2004 and in 2006, he announced his retired from One Day Internationals.
This gem of a player was also part of the ICC World XI that played in the matches for World Cricket Tsunami Appeal. Later, he joined the Indian Cricket League and at present, is hired as a captain for the Chandigarh Lions.
Best cricket players of New Zealand cricket team: Chris Harris
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Chris Harris is a former cricketer of the New Zealand cricket team, a player who was highly popular amongst cricket fans over the period of the 1990s. A premier left-handed batsman of the middle-order, Harris also performed as a right-arm slow-medium bowler.
When it comes to first-class cricket, Harris made a score of over 7000 runs at an average above 45 and played in 128 matches. His highest score of 251 included 13 centuries as well. Harris also bagged 120 wickets at an average of 38 while his best score being 4 by 22. He made a drastic contribution to the arcade of One Day International playing. It was in 2004, Chris Harris emerged as the first player of the New Zealand cricket team who played 250 ODIs. He still shares the world record for the most bowled dismissals and caught wickets in ODIs with famous Sri Lankan cricket player Muttiah Muralitharan. Harris recently became one of the international cricketers who hold a high-profile who moved to Zimbabwe to be a part of the national’s cricket. He will now be responsible for the national U-19 side.
Harris’ father, Zin Harris was an international player of the New Zealand cricket team while his brother, Ben Harris has played cricket at first-class level. All three of these shared the name Zinzan which is why they are recognized as the Zinzan brothers.
Famous cricket player of New Zealand cricket team: Andrew Jones
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Andrew Jones, an ex-cricket player of the New Zealand cricket team, who was a challenging batsman throughout his playing career and played in a total of 39 Test matches and 87 One Day International from 1987-1995. During his domestic career, Andrew Jones played for three provinces, namely Central District Stags, Wellington Firebirds and Otago Volts.
It was on 16th April, 1987 that Jones made his Test debut for New Zealand cricket team. He was quite strong batsman and delivered rock-hard performance that take him on no.3 in the batting order wherein he played all the Test innings except of 4 of them. When he settled down in the playing, Jones was not easy to dismiss as a batsman which is evident from his score of over 140 in five of his 700s. Andrew Jones always demonstrated a strong feat against sub-continental teams such as India for which he scored 401 runs at an average of 50.13 while against the Sri Lankan cricket team, Jones hit a score of 625 runs at an average of 62.50. In Wellington while playing against Sri Lanka, he acquired his highest Test score of 186.
Jones made a strong partnership with famous New Zealand cricket team player Martin Crowe and together acquired a score of 467: the highest partnership by any team for any wicket. Jones highest score of 93 came when he played against Bangladesh in Sharjah while in a total of 87 ODIs, he maintained an average of 35.69.