Full name Neil Wagner Name Neil Wagner Role Cricketer | 2006–2007 Northerns Batting style Left-handed | |
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Last Test 18 December 2015 v Sri Lanka Profiles | ||
Education Afrikaanse Hoer Seunskool Bowling style Left-arm medium-fast | ||
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Neil Wagner (born 13 March 1986) is a South African-born New Zealand cricketer who played for Northerns and now plays for New Zealand and Otago cricket teams.
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- Neil wagner from pretoria to mosgiel sky tv
- Neil wagner record five first class wickets in a six ball over
- Early career
- World record
- International career
- Playing style
- References
Neil wagner record five first class wickets in a six ball over
Early career
He attended Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool as a high school student where he played for the 1st team. He is a left-handed batsman and left-arm medium-fast bowler who has toured Zimbabwe and Bangladesh with Academy sides and appeared in two Test matches as twelfth man. In June 2009 he was awarded a place in the New Zealand Emerging Players team under Peter Fulton. He has since played in 19 Test matches for New Zealand.
World record
On 6 April 2011 Wagner took four wickets in four balls against Wellington when he dismissed Stewart Rhodes, Joe Austin-Smellie, Jeetan Patel and Ili Tugaga with the first four balls of the 70th over, his 14th. He then took the wicket of Mark Gillespie with the sixth ball of the same over: five wickets in one 6-ball over, the first (and, so far, only) time this has been achieved in first-class cricket. His bowling figures for the innings were 6/36, his personal best at that time.
International career
Wagner came to the screen in Test cricket during Sri Lanka tour for New Zealand in late 2015. His form was very good throughout the series in all Tests. He was the strike bowler for Kiwis, as Tim Southee and Doug Bracewell were not fit to the series. Skipper Brendon McCullum described Wagner before the Test as "Workhorse". New Zealand comfortably won the series as well.
The performances led him to call for the second test against Australia in the series as well due to injury of Southee. However, the limelight of his career came during the Zimbabwe tour in 2016, where Wagner won player of the series award for the impressive bowling. He took 11 wickets in the two match series with an fifer as well. After the impressive tour, New Zealand went South Africa for a crucial test series, which is the homeland for Wagner. In the second Test, Wagner took his fourth fifer in the first innings of South Africa.
In April 2017, he was named in New Zealand's One Day International (ODI) squad for the 2017 Ireland Tri-Nation Series.
Playing style
In test cricket he bowls long spells with the older ball, relying on short deliveries and dogged adherence to plans to pick up wickets, even in wickets that are 'two-paced' and in pitches where it offers no swing or seam movement for bowlers, where he would bowls shorter than other pace bowlers to bounce the batsmen out. In domestic cricket he plays as an opening swing bowler.