Nathan McCullum

Nathan McCullum

Personal information
Full name	Nathan Leslie McCullum
Born	(1980-09-01) 1 September 1980 Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Nickname	Mad-Eye
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm off break
Role	Bowling all-rounder
Relations	Brendon McCullum (brother) Stuart McCullum (father)
International information
National side	New Zealand (2007–2016)
ODI debut (cap 156)	8 September 2009 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI	19 August 2015 v South Africa
ODI shirt no.	15
T20I debut (cap 26)	19 September 2007 v South Africa
Last T20I	26 March 2016 v Bangladesh
T20I shirt no.	15
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1999–2016	Otago (squad no. 8)
2010	Lancashire
2011	Pune Warriors India
2012	Sydney Sixers (squad no. 15)
2013	Glamorgan (squad no. 9)
2016	Quetta Gladiators (squad no. 15)
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA Matches 84 63 65 203 Runs scored 1,070 299 2,329 3,077 Batting average 20.98 11.50 25.04 23.31 100s/50s 0/4 0/0 1/14 1/16 Top score 65 36* 106* 119 Balls bowled 3,536 1,123 11,508 9,079 Wickets 63 58 139 169 Bowling average 46.92 22.03 40.05 41.41 5 wickets in innings 0 0 3 1 10 wickets in match n/a n/a 0 n/a Best bowling 3/24 4/16 6/90 5/39 Catches/stumpings 41/– 26/– 71/– 97/–
Source: CricketArchive, 26 March 2016

Nathan Leslie McCullum (born 1 September 1980) is a New Zealand international cricketer. A right hand lower-order batsman and right arm off break bowler, he is a member of the Otago Volts, competing in the State Championship, State Shield and State Twenty20 competitions and represented New Zealand in Twenty20 Internationals and One Day Internationals.

Background

McCullum is the son of former Otago representative Stuart McCullum and the older brother of current Otago and New Zealand international cricketer Brendon McCullum. He and Brendon attended King's High School.

Career

McCullum made his first class debut for Otago in the 1999–2000 season. His first List A match came in the 2000–01 season and his first Twenty20 domestic match was against Canterbury at Christchurch on 13 January 2006. Later that year, McCullum was selected as part of the 30-man preliminary squad for the Champions Trophy alongside fellow Otago team-mates Warren McSkimming and Bradley Scott but ultimately missed out on the final squad. He made his Twenty20 International debut for New Zealand against South Africa on 19 September 2007 at the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa. His highest score of 10 not out came against Australia on 15 February 2009.

He made his One Day International debut against Sri Lanka on 8 September 2009 at Colombo.

Although never playing test cricket, he has been a valuable asset in the shorter forms of the game, particularly in the ICC Cricket World Cup in the sub-continent in 2011.

In an ODI against Sri Lanka at Hambantota in 2013, Nathan McCullum hit 22 runs from spinner Rangana Herath’s final over of the match when New Zealand required 21 in the last over.

Although he was named in the final squad of 15 in 2015 Cricket World Cup, he was mostly used as a substitute fielder.

McCullum is building a reputation as a travelling Twenty 20 player, having played in Twenty 20 tournaments since 2010 for Lancashire, Pune Warriors India, Sydney Sixers and Glamorgan as well as still turning out for his native side Otago.

In 2015, McCullum announced he will retire from all forms of cricket at the end on the 2015/16 Southern Hemisphere summer season. He was not named in the Sri Lankan ODI series due to his back issues, so his ODI career is over, but he was named in the 2016 ICC World Twenty20. Brendon McCullum also announced he would only retire from international cricket at the end on the 2015/16 Southern Hemisphere summer season.

Football

Prior to concentrating on his cricketing career, he played as a striker for Caversham AFC, winning the team's golden boot award in 1999 by scoring 19 goals in the FootballSouth Premier League. He scored two goals for the club in the 2003 New Zealand National Soccer League, at that time New Zealand's premier club league competition. He left the club in 2004, playing briefly with Mosgiel before turning his sporting attention completely to cricket.

Personal life

McCullum is married with 3 boys (born 2010, 2012 and 2014), and has moved up to Auckland to work part-time as a construction recruitment agent.

Career best performances

as of 26 March 2016

	Batting				Bowling
	Score	Fixture	Venue	Season	Score	Fixture	Venue	Season
ODI	65	New Zealand v Pakistan	Auckland	2011	3-24	New Zealand v South Africa	Mirpur	2011
T20I	36*	New Zealand v Sri Lanka	Lauderhill	2010	4-16	New Zealand v Pakistan	Hamilton	2010
FC	106*	Otago Volts v Northern Districts Knights	Hamilton	2008	6-90	New Zealand A v India A	Chennai	2008
LA	119	Otago Volts v Wellington Firebirds	Queenstown	2014	5-39	Otago Volts v Central Districts Stags	Palmerston North	2011
T20	76*	Otago Volts v Canterbury Wizards	Dunedin	2009	4-16	New Zealand v Pakistan	Hamilton	2010

International Awards

One-Day International Cricket

Man of the Match awards

S No	Opponent	Venue	Date	Match Performance	Result
1	Sri Lanka	Sophia Gardens, Cardiff	9 June 2013	8–0–23–2, 1 catch; 32 (42 balls: 3x4)	New Zealand won by 1 wicket.

Twenty20 International Cricket

Man of the Match Awards

#	Series	Season	Match Performance	Result
1	2010 ICC World Twenty20 1st match (NZL vs SL) in Guyana	2010	3–0–17–1, 3 catches; 16* (6 balls: 1x4, 1x6)	New Zealand won by 2 wickets.
2	2010 ICC World Twenty20 9th match (NZL vs ZIM) in Guyana	2010	4–0–16–3, 1 catch; DNB	New Zealand won by 7 wickets (D/L).
3	New Zealand vs Pakistan in New Zealand	2010/11	1 (3 balls); 4–0–16–4, 2 catches	New Zealand won by 39 runs.

External links

• Nathan McCullum at ESPNcricinfo
• Nathan McCullum at CricketArchive (subscription required)
• Nathan L McCullum at the New Zealand Cricket Players Association