1. Kyle David Mills was born on 15 March 1979 and is a New Zealand cricket coach and former international cricketer who is the former bowling coach of the Kolkata Knight Riders.
40 Facts About Kyle Mills
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Kyle Mills was a former captain of the New Zealand cricket team in limited-overs matches.
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Kyle Mills featured in three World Cup tournaments for New Zealand in 2003,2011 and 2015.
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Kyle Mills was a member of New Zealand's first ever T20I team.
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Kyle Mills topped the ICC ODI bowling rankings in 2009 and occupied in the top ten bowling rankings among bowlers in ODI cricket for a considerable period of time.
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Kyle Mills was a part of the New Zealand squad to finish as runners-up at the 2015 Cricket World Cup.
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Kyle Mills is the second leading wicket-taker for New Zealand in ODI cricket with 240 wickets just behind Daniel Vettori's tally of 297 wickets and he has taken the most number of wickets by a New Zealand seamer in ODIs.
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Kyle Mills is the all-time leading wicket-taker in ICC Champions Trophy with 28 scalps in 15 matches.
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Kyle Mills was sidelined for consistent injury concerns in his playing days.
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Kyle Mills underwent surgeries and rehabilitation to recover from knee and shoulder injuries during his early and latter stages of his international career.
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Kyle Mills was educated at Murvale Primary School, Bucklands Beach Intermediate and Macleans College.
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Kyle Mills was picked by Kings XI Punjab for the inaugural edition of the Indian Premier League in 2008, but did not play in any of the matches.
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Kyle Mills was later bought by Mumbai Indians for the 2009 Indian Premier League but he was used only as a net bowler by Mumbai Indians for the 2009 IPL season.
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Kyle Mills ruled himself out of 2010 Indian Premier League as he was recovering from knee injury.
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Kyle Mills was picked for the inaugural edition of the Sri Lanka Premier League by Uthura Rudras in 2012.
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Kyle Mills signed a contract with the English county cricket for Middlesex to play in 2013 Friends Life t20.
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Kyle Mills announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on 1 April 2015.
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Kyle Mills announced his retirement a day after Daniel Vettori had announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.
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Kyle Mills made his maiden ICC Champions Trophy appearance during the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy campaign which was held in Sri Lanka.
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Kyle Mills ended the 2002 Champions Trophy tournament with three wickets in two matches.
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Kyle Mills made his debut World Cup appearance at the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
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Kyle Mills made his test debut against England on 10 June 2004, three years after his ODI debut.
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Kyle Mills was ruled out of the remainder of the test series.
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Kyle Mills was part of the world's first T20I match which happened on 17 February 2005 between New Zealand and Australia.
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Kyle Mills made his mark in international cricket as a lead pacer during the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy which marked a turning point in his career where he finished the tournament as the leading wicket-taker for Kiwis with 10 wickets in just four matches.
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Kyle Mills was not selected for 2007 ICC World Twenty20, which was the inaugural edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup.
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Kyle Mills became a frontline bowler for New Zealand in limited-overs matches from 2008 in and was groomed to fill the void left by Bond.
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Kyle Mills's bowling helped the home side New Zealand to a comfortable crushing win by 188 runs.
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Kyle Mills dismissed Alastair Cook, Michael Vaughan, Andrew Strauss and Kevin Pietersen within his first seven overs of his spell on the final day of the test match whereas England were given a brisk target of 300.
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Kyle Mills was selected for New Zealand's 2009 ICC World Twenty20 campaign which was his maiden appearance in a T20 World Cup.
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Kyle Mills was a member of the New Zealand side which emerged as runners-up in the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy Final, after losing to Australia in South Africa.
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Kyle Mills was selected to the New Zealand squad for the 2011 Cricket World Cup as an injury replacement for Hamish Bennett.
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Kyle Mills sustained a quadriceps strain during a group stage match against Canada and was replaced by Andy McKay for the remaining World Cup matches.
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Kyle Mills was the most successful bowler for New Zealand during the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy whereas he ended the tournament with six scalps at an average of 10.5 in 3 matches.
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Kyle Mills made his T20I captaincy debut in the one-off T20I against Bangladesh which New Zealand won by 15 runs.
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Kyle Mills was appointed as the captain of the national team for the limited overs tour of Sri Lanka in 2013 replacing Kane Williamson.
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Kyle Mills was picked for the New Zealand side for the 2015 World Cup, but he did not feature in any of the matches.
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Kyle Mills was appointed as bowling coach for Kolkata Knight Riders alongside David Hussey who was appointed as chief mentor ahead of the 2020 Indian Premier League.
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Kyle Mills was fined by the International Cricket Council for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during the quarter final match between South Africa and New Zealand in the 2011 World Cup.
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Kyle Mills was charged for exchanging words with South African batsman Faf du Plessis following the run out of AB de Villiers.