Nathan McCullum

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

Career best performances

as of 26 March 2016

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.[3]

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.[4]
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).[5]
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.[6]

References

External links

• Player profile: Nathan McCullum from ESPNcricinfo
• Player profile: Nathan McCullum from CricketArchive
• Nathan L McCullum at the New Zealand Cricket Players Association

New Zealand Squads
New Zealand squad – 2007 ICC World Twenty20 Semi-Finalists 1 Vettori (c) 2 Bond 3 Fulton 4 Gillespie 5 Hopkins 6 B. McCullum 7 N. McCullum 8 McMillan 9 Martin 10 Oram 11 Patel 12 Scott 13 Styris 14 Taylor 15 Vincent New Zealand squad – 2009 ICC World Twenty20 1 Vettori (c) 2 Broom 3 Butler 4 Diamanti 5 Franklin 6 Guptill 7 B. McCullum 8 N. McCullum 9 McGlashan 10 Mills 11 O'Brien 12 Oram 13 Ryder 14 Styris 15 Taylor 16 Redmond Coach: Moles Aaron Redmond was called up to cover for the injured Jesse Ryder. New Zealand squad – 2010 ICC World Twenty20 1 Vettori (c) 2 Bond 3 Butler 4 Guptill 5 Hopkins 6 B. McCullum 7 N. McCullum 8 Mills 9 Nicol 10 Oram 11 Redmond 12 Ryder 13 Southee 14 Styris 15 Taylor Coach: Greatbatch New Zealand squad – 2011 Cricket World Cup Semi-Finalists 1 Vettori (c) 2 Tuffey 3 Franklin 4 Guptill 5 How 6 N. McCullum 7 B. McCullum (wk) 8 McKay 9 Oram 10 Ryder 11 Southee 12 Styris 13 Taylor 14 Williamson 15 Woodcock Coach: Wright Daryl Tuffey and Andy McKay were called in as a replacements for Hamish Bennett and Kyle Mills respectively. New Zealand squad – 2012 ICC World Twenty20 3 Taylor (C) 11 Vettori 15 N. McCullum 20 Milne 22 Williamson 24 Oram 28 Nicol 31 Guptill 34 Bracewell 36 Hira 37 Mills 38 Southee 42 B. McCullum 47 Watling 70 Franklin Coach: Hesson New Zealand squad – 2013 ICC Champions Trophy‎ 1  McCullum (c) 2 Boult 3  Butler 4  Guptill 5 Elliott 6  Vettori 7  N. McCullum 8 Mills 9 Ellis 10  Franklin 11 Munro 12  Ronchi (wk) 13  Southee 14  Williamson 15  Taylor 16  McClenaghan Coach:  Hesson New Zealand squad – 2014 ICC World Twenty20 42 BB McCullum (c) & (wk) 78 Anderson 8 Boult - Devcich 31 Guptill - Hira 81 McClenaghan 15 NL McCullum 37 Mills - Munro 83 Neesham 54 Ronchi (wk) 38 Southee 3 Taylor 22 Williamson Coach: Hesson New Zealand squad – 2015 Cricket World Cup Runners-Up 3 Taylor 11 Vettori 15 N. McCullum 18 Boult 20 Milne* 21 Henry* 22 Williamson 23 Latham (wk) 31 Guptill 37 Mills 38 Southee 42 B. McCullum (c) 54 Ronchi (wk) 78 Anderson 81 McClenaghan 88 Elliott Coach: Hesson * Henry replaced Milne in the squad. New Zealand squad – 2016 ICC World Twenty20 Semi-Finalists 42 Williamson (c) 78 Anderson 8 Boult - Santner 31 Guptill - Milne 81 McClenaghan 15 NL McCullum 86 Nicholls 82 Munro 83 Sodhi 54 Ronchi (wk) 38 Southee 3 Taylor 22 Elliott Coach: Hesson