BRENDON MCULLUM

 

In 2003 he played in an exam series against England and scored that which was then his highest score, an innings of 96 at Lord's. His maiden Test century came a few months later while he scored 143 against Bangladesh.

He was selected inside the 20-man ICC World XI squad for your ICC Super Series in July 2005.

On 20 February 2007, he scored 86 not out as Nz continued is the first team to whitewash Australia in the 3 match ODI series since 1997. He struck a huge six off the first ball from the last over against Nathan Bracken to level the scores, before he finished it well which has a boundary.
 

On 5 April 2009, on day three with the third Test match during India's tour of the latest Zealand, he displayed an amazing level of alertness in the dismissal of Rahul Dravid. Dravid attempted a sweep shot off Daniel Vettori's bowling, but McCullum saw what Dravid was up to prior to the ball had even pitched and moved swiftly to his left . Ross Taylor initially slip did precisely the same. The ball came nicely off Dravid's bat, but flew straight into the hands of the waiting Brendon McCullum. A couple of balls earlier, McCullum tried the same thing, but he was really a little slow and Dravid's sweep was kept low. Although there is some discussion in connection with legality of McCullum's movement prior to ball had even pitched

On 16 February 2010, during the only Test match against Bangladesh, he scored 185, the very best score ever by a Nz wicket-keeper in Test cricket. He seemed to be mixed up in the record highest sixth-wicket partnership for New Zealand of 339 runs with Martin Guptill, losing out on the entire world record just by 12 runs.