Tim Southee is a right-arm fast-medium bowler and a hard-hitting lower order batsman.
75 Facts About Tim Southee
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Tim Southee plays for Northern Districts in the Plunket Shield, Ford Trophy and Super Smash as well as Northland in the Hawke Cup.
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Tim Southee was named as New Zealand's captain for the first T20I against West Indies in place of Kane Williamson, who was rested for that game.
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Tim Southee is known for his ability to generate late outswing at a brisk pace, and later with off cutting slower balls almost like a faster off-spinner on a damp wicket and death bowling.
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Tim Southee was the third-highest wicket-taker at the 2011 ICC World Cup.
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Tim Southee impressed at the 2015 ICC World Cup, taking 7 wickets in a round robin league match against England.
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Tim Southee was born in Whangarei, New Zealand, and grew up in Northland.
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Tim Southee was educated at Whangarei Boys' High School and King's College, Auckland.
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Tim Southee played under-19 cricket for New Zealand from 2006 to 2009.
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Tim Southee was 17 years old when he debuted in the 2006 ICC Under-19 World Cup on 5 February, against Bangladesh in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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Tim Southee played against Pakistan, Ireland, the United States and Nepal in that tournament.
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Tim Southee ended with 5 wickets at an average of 38.8, and 113 runs at 22.6.
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In 2007, Tim Southee played his only three Youth Tests when New Zealand hosted India.
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Tim Southee finished the drawn series with 20 wickets at an average of 18.2.
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Tim Southee's bowling saw him named the player of the tournament.
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Tim Southee began his international career as one of the youngest ever to feature for New Zealand.
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On 30 January 2008, Tim Southee was named in the New Zealand squad for two Twenty20 International games against England.
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England were still touring New Zealand when Tim Southee returned home from the 2008 Under-19 World Cup as player of the tournament.
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When injury ruled Kyle Mills out of the third Test match, in Napier, Tim Southee was added to the squad and made his Test match debut on 22 March 2008.
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Tim Southee had an immediate impact in the first day, dismissing Michael Vaughan and Andrew Strauss in his second and third overs, and then later claiming the wicket of Kevin Pietersen.
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Tim Southee only played the ODIs, taking a combined two wickets for 114.
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Tim Southee returned to Northern Districts for the first time since the previous season.
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Tim Southee played all the one-day matches but only took three wickets, averaging 84.33.
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Butler played all three matches but Tim Southee replaced Iain O'Brien in the third.
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Tim Southee was hit for 105 runs without taking a wicket and then dropped from the squad.
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Tim Southee played only in the third of the tests, ahead of Mills and Jeetan Patel.
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Tim Southee wasn't picked to play any full international cricket through the southern winter, which included the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy and 2009 ICC World Twenty20.
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Tim Southee retained one of New Zealand Cricket's 20 player contracts for the 12 months from 1 August 2009 but through the winter season was left out of Black Caps teams.
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Tim Southee scored runs quickly with 55 off 56 balls in the one-days matches.
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Tim Southee took only three wickets in the two-day matches.
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Tim Southee went wicketless in the Twenty20 and first ODI, then missed the second ODI.
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Tim Southee played all of these matches except the first Twenty20.
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Tim Southee's series began slowly, with only two wickets in his first five games.
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Tim Southee had four first-innings wickets and added two more top-order scalps in the second.
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Tim Southee was a squad member for every series of the season, playing in 14 of these 24 matches.
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Ten months after missing selection for the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 Tim Southee played the first three of New Zealand's five games in the 2010 edition, taking a single wicket in each, but was dropped on form.
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Tim Southee took six wickets in seven ODIs, and four wickets in two tests.
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Tim Southee played in two of the matches without taking a wicket.
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Tim Southee missed the first test but replaced Jeetan Patel for the last two.
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Tim Southee only missed one ODI, playing all the other matches.
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Tim Southee became the third bowler to take a hat-trick in a Twenty20 international, and took his first ODI five-wicket bag.
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The Twenty20 series began on Boxing Day in Auckland, where Tim Southee was named man of the match.
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Tim Southee finished the sixth over of the game with a wicket.
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Tim Southee was out the next morning for 56, making him joint top-scorer for the innings.
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Tim Southee took two first-innings wickets, but over the second and third days Pakistan easily won the match.
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Tim Southee scored another 23 runs in a drawn match.
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Tim Southee's figures faded through the series though, and in the last two matches he played he didn't take any wickets.
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Tim Southee was the third-highest wicket-taker at the 2011 World Cup, hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
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Tim Southee was named by the ICC as the 12th man, and only New Zealander, in the "team of the tournament" having finished with 18 wickets at 17.33.
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Tim Southee opened the bowling in seven of New Zealand's eight matches and was first change in the other.
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Tim Southee's work was credited as contributing a lot towards Southee's improvement and success at the world cup.
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Towards the end of the tournament Donald predicted that Tim Southee could be the best swing bowler in world cricket:.
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Tim Southee was named as 12th man in the 'Team of the Tournament' for the 2011 World Cup by the ICC.
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Tim Southee had been passed over at the 2011 IPL player auction in January, but shortly after New Zealand were eliminated from the World Cup his form led to the Chennai Super Kings signing him for the IPL's 2011 season, which began on 8 April.
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On 26 August 2021, Tim Southee was included in the Kolkata Knight Riders squad for the second phase of the 2021 Indian Premier League in the UAE.
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Tim Southee was injured out of that tour, with his knee not having recovered.
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Tim Southee played all three of the ODIs to count, taking only two wickets.
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Tim Southee took 12 wickets at an average under 14.
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Tim Southee returned to the New Zealand test side for the three match series against England.
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Tim Southee took only one wicket in the first two matches, but in the third game at Eden Park Southee returned to form, taking 5 wickets as New Zealand fell one wicket short of a series win over the tourists.
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Tim Southee bowled well in the second test at Headingley, and was widely regarded as unfortunate to finish with just 2 wickets.
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Tim Southee followed this by leading the New Zealand bowlers in their tour of the West Indies.
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Tim Southee again took 11 wickets as New Zealand won their first away series against major opposition in 12 years.
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The opponents were bowled out for 123 and the Black Caps won by 8 wickets with Tim Southee being named Man of the Match.
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On 29 December 2020, in the First Test of the series against Pakistan, Tim Southee became the Third bowler for New Zealand to take 300 wickets in Test cricket.
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Tim Southee played his first match in the 2019 Cricket world cup against England on 3 July 2019 at the Riverside Ground.
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In November 2022, during India tour of New Zealand, Tim Southee claimed his second hat-trick in T20Is and joined Sri Lankan bowling legend Lasith Malinga in an elite list of T20I bowlers who have taken more than one hat-trick in the shortest format of the game.
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In February 2023, Tim Southee made history by becoming the first player from New Zealand to reach 700 international wickets.
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Tim Southee achieved this unprecedented milestone during the 2nd Test of England's tour of New Zealand, 2023, when he dismissed Ben Duckett.
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Tim Southee was named stand-in T20I captain for the first T20I against West Indies.
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Tim Southee again captained New Zealand for first T20I against Pakistan as Kane Williamson was ruled out due to an injury.
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Tim Southee was named as the captain for the ODI series against England at home due to regular captain Kane Williamson was dropped from the squad due to injury.
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On 28 February against England, Tim Southee made ODI captaincy debut for New Zealand In April 2019, he was named the vice-captain of New Zealand's squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
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In October 2019, Kane Williamson was ruled out of T20I series against England due to a hip injury, with Tim Southee named as captain.
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In 2008 when Tim Southee was first selected in the national team Richard Hadlee remarked of him "He runs in relatively straight, he gets through his action nicely and he moves the ball, particularly away from the batsman".