82 Facts About Brendon McCullum

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Brendon Barrie McCullum was born on 27 September 1981 and is a former cricketer and the current head coach of the England Cricket Test team.

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Brendon McCullum is considered one of the most successful batsmen and captains of New Zealand cricket.

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Brendon McCullum retired from all forms of cricket in August 2019.

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Brendon McCullum is the former leading run scorer in Twenty20 International cricket and is the first and so far only one of the two Kiwi players to have scored two T20I centuries and 2000 runs in T20I.

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Brendon McCullum became the first New Zealander to score a triple hundred in a Test, 302 runs against India on 18 February 2014.

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Brendon McCullum holds the record for the fastest 150 in Test cricket.

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Brendon McCullum was the first batsman to score 2 tons in T20I.

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Brendon McCullum was the previous record holder for the highest individual score in a Twenty20 International and third highest individual score in all Twenty20 cricket which was later surpassed by Aaron Finch and Chris Gayle for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2013 edition of IPL.

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Brendon McCullum played for the Kolkata Knight Riders from 2008 to 2010 and again from 2012 to 2013, while in between he played for the Kochi Tuskers Kerala.

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Brendon McCullum played the 2014 and 2015 seasons for the Chennai Super Kings.

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On 22 December 2015, Brendon McCullum announced he would retire from international cricket at the end of the southern summer, joining his brother who had earlier that year announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.

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Brendon McCullum is the highest runs scorer by the captain in his farewell test and first captain to score a century in his farewell test.

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Brendon McCullum retired from all international cricket on 24 February 2016.

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Brendon McCullum played for franchise sides in a wide range of Twenty20 competitions around the world.

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Brendon McCullum is currently the brand ambassador for online sports betting website 22bet.

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On 3 March 2008, before facing England for the test series, Brendon McCullum was involved in the State Shield Final versus the Auckland Aces, scoring 170 runs for the Otago Volts to help beat the Aces at Eden Park's outer oval, and helped to chase down a daunting total of 7 for 310, he broke multiple State Shield batting records.

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Brendon McCullum scored the fastest LA hundred off 52 balls, including 14 fours and 5 sixes.

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Brendon McCullum played for Glamorgan in 2006 and he scored 160 opening the batting against Leicestershire in the County Championship.

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Brendon McCullum donated his match fee from the game to Otago Junior Cricket.

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Brendon McCullum reached his 50 off 32 deliveries and his century off 65 deliveries.

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Coincidentally, Brendon McCullum faced an over from White during the match and scored 24 from it; it was White's only over in that match.

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Brendon McCullum was bought by Kochi Tuskers Kerala in the 2011 IPL auctions.

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Brendon McCullum was given the role of opening the innings along with West Indian Dwayne Smith and the pair was considered the most dangerous opening pair in the league's history.

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Brendon McCullum fell just short of his second Test hundred in a game against Sri Lanka when dismissed one short of his hundred.

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Brendon McCullum was selected in the 20-man ICC World XI squad for the ICC Super Series in July 2005.

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Brendon McCullum finished his innings with 80 runs from only 28 balls, including 9 fours and 6 sixes with a strike rate of 285.71.

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On 1 July 2008, Brendon McCullum scored his maiden ODI century, a 135-ball 166, against Ireland in the Associates Tri-Series in Scotland.

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Dravid attempted a sweep shot off Daniel Vettori's bowling, but Brendon McCullum saw what Dravid was up to before the ball had even pitched and moved swiftly to his left.

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On 6 November 2009, against Pakistan at Abu Dhabi, Brendon McCullum scored his second ODI century of 131 to elevate New Zealand to 303 and win the match to level the series.

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Brendon McCullum was involved in the record highest sixth-wicket partnership for New Zealand of 339 runs with Martin Guptill, missing out on the world record by just 12 runs.

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On 27 February 2010, Brendon McCullum became the second player to score a T20I hundred, finishing 116 not out, one run short of Chris Gayle's record of 117.

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On 4 May 2010 Brendon McCullum became the first player to score 1,000 T20 international runs.

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Brendon McCullum achieved this feat playing against Zimbabwe in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 at Guyana.

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On 28 June 2010, Brendon McCullum announced that he would not keep wicket for New Zealand in Test matches.

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Brendon McCullum did a fine job in his first innings since handing over the wicketkeeping duties he scored 65 runs and was engaged in a 104 run partnership with Ross Taylor he was promoted to the position of opener in tests rather than his usual number 5 position.

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Brendon McCullum did however have experience of opening the innings because he opens for New Zealand in limited-overs cricket.

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On 21 September 2012 at the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 tournament in Sri Lanka, Brendon McCullum scored 123 runs against Bangladesh at Pallekele, setting a new record for the highest Twenty20 International innings, and becoming the first player to score two Twenty20 International centuries.

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However, Brendon McCullum is one of the two players to have scored two Twenty20 International centuries along with West Indian Chris Gayle.

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In 2014 at the Basin Reserve in Wellington, Brendon McCullum scored 302 runs in the third innings of the second test against India, becoming the first New Zealand batsman to score a triple-century.

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Brendon McCullum shared a 352 run partnership with BJ Watling, then a record sixth wicket stand, rescuing New Zealand from a likely innings defeat.

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On 21 November 2014, Brendon McCullum took his first-ever wicket at test level, a caught-and-bowled of Pakistan's Sarfraz Ahmed during their second test.

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Brendon McCullum was bowled out on 202 after hitting eleven sixes in his innings, by far a record for New Zealand opening batsman.

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On 13 December 2014, Brendon McCullum was named New Zealander of the Year by the New Zealand Herald beating out stiff competition from Lane Pilkington due to his continued co-operation with ICC over the match-fixing scandal which resulted in Chris Cairns being charged for lying to court, and for changing the perception of the Black Caps as easy-beats.

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Brendon McCullum fell 5 runs shy of his 4th 200+ scores in a calendar year.

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Brendon McCullum's 33 sixes in test cricket in a single calendar year is a world record.

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Brendon McCullum closed the year with a triple century and two double centuries, the third person to do so after Donald Bradman and Michael Clarke.

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On 3 January 2015 Brendon McCullum returned to Basin Reserve, where he scored his triple century against India.

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Brendon McCullum led New Zealand in the 2015 Cricket World Cup, which was co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia.

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On 20 February 2015, in New Zealand's third Pool A match against England, Brendon McCullum scored 77 runs off 25 balls, recording the fastest 50 in World Cup history and the 4th fastest fifty of all time.

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Brendon McCullum led the New Zealand team to their first World Cup final, scoring timely innings in the pool match against Australia and South Africa in the semi-final.

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Brendon McCullum's aggressive starts against the strike bowlers of the opposition team such as James Anderson, Mitchell Johnson, and Dale Steyn favoured the rest of the players to play their natural game.

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On 12 February 2016, Brendon McCullum started his 100th consecutive test, but was dismissed in both innings by Mitchell Marsh, making Marsh the second person since Jason Gillespie to dismiss him on both innings of 2 test matches.

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On 22 December 2015, Brendon McCullum announced his intention to retire from international cricket at the end of the southern summer in his home test against Australia, rather than after the 2016 ICC World Twenty20.

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On 20 February 2016, in his final test in his adopted home of Christchurch, Brendon McCullum became the only member left from the last Trans-Tasman Test in Christchurch in the pre-earthquake AMI Stadium.

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Brendon McCullum hit his 102nd career six to surpass Adam Gilchrist as the most prolific six-hitter in test cricket.

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Brendon McCullum went on to score a century off 54 balls, beating the joint record by West Indian Viv Richard and Pakistani Misbah-ul-Haq's record for the fastest test century by 2 balls.

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Brendon McCullum became the second player since Jason Gillespie to score a hundred or more in his final test.

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Brendon McCullum recorded the highest runs scorer by the captain in farewell test and 1st captain to score a ton in farewell test.

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Brendon McCullum took four catches as a fielder at first slip, deputising for the injured Ross Taylor.

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On 22 February 2016, Brendon McCullum played his last innings in a Test Match against Australia.

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Brendon McCullum scored 25 off 27, when he was dismissed by Josh Hazlewood one ball after hitting him for a 6.

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Brendon McCullum was given a guard of honour upon entry onto the field, and was given a standing ovation once dismissed.

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Brendon McCullum's batting is good enough to earn him selection for the Black Caps alone, shown by the occasions on which he has been unable to keep but has still been selected as a batsman.

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Brendon McCullum opens the batting for New Zealand in ODIs with steadily improving success.

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Brendon McCullum is an aggressive batsman who is particularly strong over extra cover, often lofting the ball into the stands, and square-cutting, or square-driving the ball.

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Brendon McCullum is adept at using the scoop shot, even using it at tests, so much so that McScoop was named after him.

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In 2010 Brendon McCullum hung up the gloves In Test cricket due to continued body strain and became a specialist batsmen in Test cricket, opening the innings in his first match as a specialist batsmen against India in Ahmedabad.

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Brendon McCullum was described as a player "especially suited to Twenty20 cricket" when he signed for a five-week stint at Glamorgan in June 2006.

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Brendon McCullum was signed up by the Kolkata Knight Riders of the IPL for $700,000.

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Brendon McCullum has the ability to play the Dilscoop or precisely the ramp shot, which involves the batsman squatting down and scooping deliveries back over the wicketkeeper's area.

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Brendon McCullum had to decide whether to play for New South Wales, KKR, or Otago in the 1st edition of the Champions League Twenty20.

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Brendon McCullum is a very seldom-used part-time medium pace bowler in tests.

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Brendon McCullum got his first wicket in all forms of international cricket from a caught-and-bowled against Sarfraz Ahmed of Pakistan which ended their first innings in 2014.

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Brendon McCullum was picked for 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup as an opening batsman due to inconsistencies from Martin Guptill and Tom Latham and the emergence of Grant Elliott as a solid option at number five batsman.

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Brendon McCullum won the New Zealand Sportsman Of The Year award in 2014, and then the Sport New Zealand Leadership Award in 2016.

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In June 2016, just a few months after his retirement from international cricket, Brendon McCullum was honoured with an invitation to deliver the prestigious MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture.

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Brendon McCullum became only the second New Zealand player ever to have been invited to deliver the Cowdrey lecture, the only other New Zealander being the late Martin Crowe.

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Brendon McCullum was appointed as head coach for both Trinbago Knight Riders and Kolkata Knight Riders in August 2019.

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Brendon McCullum's first assignment was a 3-Test home series against his home country New Zealand, which got off to a great start as England won the game at Lord's by 5 wickets.

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Brendon McCullum then continued to coach the team to a second 5 wicket win at batting-friendly ground Trent Bridge.

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Joe Root's brilliant 176 in the first innings was characterized by Brendon McCullum's coaching, as well as the bowling in the second innings, with Brendon McCullum advising positions to Ben Stokes, England's captain.

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Brendon McCullum has since been involved in setting up CricHQ with the company's CEO Simon Baker and former New Zealand cricketer Stephen Fleming.