stephen fleming Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
stephen fleming is a cricketer(sportsman) from New Zealand. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Stephen Paul Fleming
Born
April 01, 1973, Christchurch, Canterbury
Age
50 years old
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Playing Role
Top order Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 111 | 280 | 5 | 10 |
Inn | 189 | 269 | 5 | 10 |
Runs | 7172 | 8037 | 110 | 196 |
Avg | 40.07 | 32.41 | 22.0 | 21.78 |
SR | 45.82 | 71.49 | 129.41 | 118.79 |
HS | 274 | 134 | 38 | 45 |
NO | 10 | 21 | 0 | 1 |
100s | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
50s | 46 | 49 | 0 | 0 |
4s | 917 | 823 | 20 | 27 |
6s | 26 | 63 | 0 | 3 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 111 | 280 | 5 | 10 |
Inn | - | 3 | - | - |
Balls | - | 29 | - | - |
Runs | - | 28 | - | - |
Wkt | - | 1 | - | - |
BBI | - | 8 / 1 | - | - |
BBM | - | 8 / 1 | - | - |
Eco | - | 5.79 | - | - |
Avg | - | 28.0 | - | - |
5W | - | 0 | - | - |
10W | - | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- New Zealand
- Canterbury
- Chennai Super Kings
- ICC World XI
- Middlesex
- Nottinghamshire
- Wellington
- Yorkshire
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Fleming is the most capped Test player in New Zealand history with as many as 111 Tests under his belt and is the only Kiwi player to have scored more then 7000 runs in Test cricket. Fleming marked an eye-catching debut against India in Hamilton in 1994 and was unlucky to miss out on a debut century. He continued to be a consistent batsman but struggled to convert his fifties into hundreds. The first Test century finally arrived when he cracked 128 against England in Auckland in 1997.
1998 turned out to be a prolific year for Fleming as he scored 474 runs at 52. A county stint at Middlesex helped Fleming in 2001 and his breakthrough performance was a fine 134 that helped New Zealand shock hosts South Africa in a preliminary match of the 2003 WC. In his first Test after the WC, Fleming returned with scores of 274* & 69* against Sri Lanka at Colombo in April 2003 and ended the year with a fine 192 against Pakistan at Hamilton.
When Fleming reached 81 against Bangladesh at Chittagong, Fleming went past Martin Crowe’s tally of 5444 runs to become the highest run getter for New Zealand in Test cricket. He also went past Sir Richard Hadlee’s tally of 86 Tests and enjoyed a memorable 150th Test innings with a knock of 202 runs, his 2nd double century.
Fleming’s best moment was obviously the 2-1 series victory over England in 1999 and then drew a 3-match Test series against Steve Waugh’s Australia in 2001-02.
Fleming played his 100th Test for New Zealand against South Africa at Centurion, but had a disappointing outing both as a batsman and as a leader. He made amends in the next Test at Cape Town as he amassed 262. Fleming ended his international career after suffering a series defeat at the hands of England in 2008.
Fleming was a part of the New Zealand squad for 4 World Cup’s and led his team in 3 of those. He took the tiny island nation to 2 semi-finals besides winning the inaugural Champion’s Trophy held in Kenya in 2000. His ODI career came to an end after leading New Zealand to a semi-final finish in the 2007 WC.
Stephen Fleming was lured into the inaugural edition of the Indian Premier League in 2008 where he represented the Chennai Super Kings. He was appointed as the coach of the franchise in 2009 and has ensured a successful combination with M S Dhoni helping Chennai clinch the 2010 and 2011 IPL titles as well as the 2010 Champion’s League title.
By Pradeep Krishnamurthy
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Stephen Fleming will go down in cricket history as his country's most successful captain and one of their best batters, and one of the finest T20 strategists in the first generation of the game.
The first New Zealander to pass 7000 Test runs, he did enough in his last innings, in Napier against England, to lift his career average over 40. Nine Test centuries were a poor return for such a talent, but Fleming was worth more than his statistics.
A stint with Middlesex in 2001 laid the foundations for a successful re-evaluation of his batting methods. After a breakout innings of 134 not out to steer New Zealand to a landmark World Cup victory over South Africa, along with another spell in county cricket, with Yorkshire, Fleming confirmed his greater consistency with a career-highest 274 not out against Sri Lanka in the first Test of their 2003 series. He followed that with an equally impressive 192 in Hamilton against Pakistan later that year and was named New Zealand's cricketer of the year in 2004.
In 2004, Fleming's 87th Test made him the most capped player for New Zealand at the time, and in the course of his 202, against Bangladesh, moved to 81, went past Martin Crowe's mark as New Zealand's premier Test run-maker.
In May 2006, he made his 100th Test appearance, against South Africa - appropriately, in Centurion. In that series he made a wonderful 262 in Cape Town in a game New Zealand lost. The World Cup in the West Indies the following year was Fleming's fourth as a player and third as captain, and he led New Zealand to another semi-final in what turned out to be his final act as one-day captain. In September that year, he retired from ODIs, and was also relieved of the Test captaincy after a decade in charge, in favour of Daniel Vettori.
In 2008 he called it quits in Test cricket after a home series against England, going on to play in the first year of the IPL for Chennai Super Kings, before moving into the coach's role with them with great distinction: during his first six-year stint in charge, CSK won two IPL titles (and were runners-up twice) and a Champions League T20. Fleming was back in the saddle with them in 2018, after the team's two-year suspension, and led them to the title again that year and in 2021.