1. Stephen Paul Fleming was born on 1 April 1973 and is a cricket coach and former captain of the New Zealand national cricket team.
40 Facts About Stephen Fleming
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Stephen Fleming was a left-handed opening batter and an occasional right arm slow medium bowler.
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Stephen Fleming is New Zealand's second-most capped Test cricketer with 111 appearances.
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Stephen Fleming is the team's longest-serving and most successful captain with 28 test victories and led the team to win the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy, the team's first International Cricket Council trophy.
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Stephen Fleming played in the inaugural season of the Indian Premier League for Chennai Super Kings and became the team's coach in 2009.
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Stephen Fleming is the team's current head coach and has coached them to five IPL and two Champions League T20 titles.
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Stephen Fleming serves as the head coach of other Super Kings franchises, Joburg Super Kings in the SA20 and Texas Super Kings in Major League Cricket.
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Stephen Fleming served as the coach of Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash League from 2015 to 2019.
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Stephen Fleming was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to cricket, in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours.
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Stephen Fleming was born on 1 April 1973 in Christchurch to Pauline Stephen Fleming and Gary Kirk.
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On 9 May 2007, Stephen Fleming married his long-term partner Kelly Payne in a ceremony in Wellington.
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Stephen Fleming has played county cricket in England for Middlesex, Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire.
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Stephen Fleming captained Nottinghamshire to County Championship victory in 2005, their first Championship title in 18 years.
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Stephen Fleming made his ODI debut on 25 March 1994 in the first match of the ODI series that followed and scored an unbeaten 90.
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Stephen Fleming led the New Zealand team to a bronze medal in the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
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Stephen Fleming led the team to win the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy, which was New Zealand's first ICC trophy.
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Stephen Fleming became New Zealand's most successful test captain in September 2000 with a victory over Zimbabwe which was the 12th win under his captaincy overtaking Geoff Howarth and finished with 28 wins, the most by a New Zealand captain.
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Stephen Fleming's scored his best ODI score with an unbeaten 134 to help New Zealand beat hosts South Africa in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
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In February 2005, Stephen Fleming captained New Zealand in the first ever Twenty20 International against Australia.
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On 25 October 2006, Stephen Fleming captained his country for the 194th time in an ODI overtaking Arjuna Ranatunga for most matches as a captain and finished with 218 games as a captain, a record which has since been eclipsed only by Ricky Ponting.
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Stephen Fleming captained the side in the 2007 World Cup and scored 353 runs at an average of 39.22, leading the team to the semi-finals.
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On 24 April 2007, Stephen Fleming resigned as captain in a post-match press conference held after the semi-Final defeat to Sri Lanka.
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In September 2007, Stephen Fleming was replaced by Daniel Vettori as the New Zealand captain.
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Stephen Fleming confirmed his retirement from the New Zealand team at the end of England's 2008 tour of New Zealand to spend more time with his family, and to play for the Indian Premier League.
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Stephen Fleming scored over 7000 runs in test cricket and took over 170 catches, the third highest Test aggregate for a non-wicket keeper.
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Stephen Fleming was acquired by Chennai Super Kings for US$350,000 for the inaugural season of Indian Premier League.
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Stephen Fleming played just one season and scored 196 runs in ten matches with CSK finishing as runners-up.
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Stephen Fleming was appointed as the head coach of Chennai Super Kings in 2009 when he retired as a player.
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Stephen Fleming coached CSK to its second consecutive IPL title in 2011 and its second Champions League Twenty20 title in 2014.
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Stephen Fleming returned to Chennai Super Kings for the 2018 season.
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Stephen Fleming coached CSK to its third IPL title in 2018.
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Stephen Fleming led CSK to the title again in 2021 and 2023 IPL.
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Stephen Fleming was appointed as the head coach of other Super Kings franchises, Joburg Super Kings of SA20 in 2022 and Texas Super Kings of Major League Cricket in 2023.
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Stephen Fleming has been involved in setting up CricHQ with the company's CEO Simon Baker and former New Zealand cricket captain Brendon McCullum.
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Stephen Fleming is one of the investors and a director in the company.
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Stephen Fleming was an elegant left handed batter and played shots such as the flick off the pads, straight drive, cover drive and cut shots.
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Stephen Fleming was a prolific slip catcher and was particularly noted for his captaincy, having been praised by Shane Warne as the "best captain in world cricket".
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Stephen Fleming had captained New Zealand in 303 matches including 80 Test matches, 218 ODIs and 5 T20Is, a New Zealand record and the third highest ever.
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Stephen Fleming was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to cricket, in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours.
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In 1995, Stephen Fleming was caught and admitted to smoking marijuana with teammates Matthew Hart and Dion Nash while on tour at their hotel.