Full Name Craig Derek Cumming Born ( 1975-08-13 ) 13 August 1975 (age 48)
Birth Place Timaru, Canterbury Region, New Zealand Role Opening batsman Name Craig Cumming | National team
New Zealand
Batting style Right-hand batsman Bowling style Right-arm medium |
| Competition | Test | ODI | FC | List A |
| Matches | 11 | 13 | 121 | 122 |
| Runs scored | 441 | 161 | 7,154 | 2,810 |
| Batting average | 25.94 | 13.31 | 36.13 | 25.77 |
| 100s/50s | 0/1 | 0/0 | 16/33 | 3/15 |
| Top score | 74 | 45* | 187 | 112 |
| Balls bowled | – | 18 | 3,629 | 2,494 |
| Wickets | – | 0 | 31 | 40 |
| Bowling average | – | – | 53.48 | 47.85 |
| 5 wickets in innings | – | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | – | n/a | 0 | n/a |
| Best bowling | – | 0/17 | 3/31 | 2/18 |
| Catches/stumpings | 3/– | 6/– | 53/– | 53/– |
Craig Derek Cumming (born 31 August 1975 in Timaru) is a New Zealand cricketer. He has played for the New Zealand cricket team in One Day Internationals and Tests. He is the current captain of the Otago cricket team, competing in the State Championship, State Shield and State Twenty20 competitions in the 2006/2007 season.
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Cumming is a right-handed opening batsman who had played 99 First Class games, 103 "List A" or limited overs games and 9 Twenty20 games at the end of the 2006/2007 season. He played for Canterbury early in his career and debuted in First Class and "List A" cricket for them.
Craig cumming retires
Cumming has played for South Canterbury in the Hawke Cup.
Craig cumming sets record
On 5 March 2005 against Australia, he was the recipient of, what is called the fastest over ever in New Zealand, bowled by Brett Lee, in which he clocked 160.8 km/h (99.9 mph) at Napier as the fastest delivery of the over.
Currently he is a broadcaster for Newstalk ZB in Dunedin hosting local sports shows and is one of the domestic Sky Sport commentator for the HRV Cup and New Zealand home matches.