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Brendon Barrie "Baz" McCullum, ONZM (conceived 27 September 1981) is a previous New Zealander universal cricketer, who played all organizations and furthermore a previous commander in all forms. A forceful enormous hitting legend all finished cricket, McCullum took speedy scoring to Test coordinates too, strikingly recording the speediest test century ever. He is considered as a standout amongst the best batsmen and in addition commanders of New Zealand cricket. 
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McCullum is the previous driving run scorer in Twenty20 International cricket and is the first thus far just a single of the two players to have scored two Twenty20 International hundreds of years and 2000 keeps running in T20 Internationals(apart from Martin Guptill). He turned into the primary New Zealander to score a triple hundred of every a Test, 302 keeps running against India on 18 February 2014. In 2014, he additionally turned into the principal New Zealander to score 1000 trials in a date-book year (1164). The record was bettered by Kane Williamson with 1172 keeps running in 2015. In his keep going Test trip on 20 February 2016, McCullum posted the quickest ever Test century, in 54 balls, beating the record mutually held by his saint, Vivian Richards and Misbah-ul-Haq, scoring a sum of 145 off 79 balls.
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McCullum was the primary batsman to score 2 tons in t20I.He was the past record holder for the most noteworthy individual score in a Twenty20 International (123 against Bangladesh in 2012) and second most astounding individual score in every one of the Twenty20 cricket (158 not out for the Kolkata Knight Riders against the Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2008) which was later outperformed by Chris Gayle (175 against the Pune Warriors India) for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2013 release of IPL . He played for the Kolkata Knight Riders from 2008– 2010 and again from 2012– 2013, while in the middle of he played for the Kochi Tuskers Kerala. He played the 2014 and 2015 seasons for the Chennai Super Kings. McCullum was a wicket-attendant until 2013. 
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On 22 December 2015, McCullum reported he would resign from worldwide cricket toward the finish of the southern summer, joining his sibling who had before that year declared his retirement from all types of cricket. He is likewise the most astounding (170) runs scorer by the skipper in his goodbye test and first commander to score a century in his goodbye test. He resigned from all worldwide cricket on 24 February 2016. 

Right now he plays professionally with the Otago Volts at common level, the Lahore Qalandars in Pakistan Super League, the Brisbane Heat in Australia's Big Bash League, the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL and the Trinbago Knight Riders in the CPL, Rangpur Riders in the BPL.. After retirement, he has affirmed to come back to Brisbane Heat for BBL 06. He is additionally acting by and by as a Mentor and Captain for Lahore Qalandars establishment cricket group in Pakistan Super League. 
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His sibling Nathan McCullum was likewise a top of the line and universal cricketer, and their dad Stuart McCullum was a long-serving top of the line player for Otago. Both Brendon and Nathan went to King's High School in Dunedin.

Domestic career

On 3 March 2008, preceding confronting England for the test arrangement, McCullum was engaged with the State Shield Final versus the Auckland Aces, scoring 170 keeps running for the Otago Volts to help beat the Aces at Eden Park's external oval, and pursued down an overwhelming aggregate of 7 for 310, he broke numerous State Shield batting records. He scored the quickest LA hundred off 52 balls, including 14 fours and 5 sixes. With 170 keeps running in the match, McCullum scored the most noteworthy score by any player in a residential one-day coordinate (Shell or State rivalries) overwhelming Blair Hartland's past record. 

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McCullum played for Glamorgan in 2006 and he scored 160 opening the batting against Leicestershire in the County Championship. On 24 January 2009, he arranged for New South Wales in the last of Australia's KFC Twenty20 Big Bash. This was an activity to enable him to be qualified to play for them in the Twenty20 Champions League. This started feedback however in spite of supposition States are allowed to have one abroad player in their squad. McCullum likewise gave his match expense from the amusement to Otago Junior Cricket. 

On 16 January 2010 amid the 2009-10 HRV Cup, versus Auckland Aces at University Oval, McCullum hit 108 not out off 67 conveyances, which included 10 fours and four sixes to lead Otago Volts to triumph with three balls to save. McCullum achieved his 50 off 32 conveyances and his century off 65 conveyances. 

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Following his declaration to resign from universal cricket in 2015, he marked with Middlesex for NatWest T20 Blast. His dedication would be for a large portion of a season after his stretch at IPL, and may return for the Royal London One-Day Cup, gave that Middlesex fits the bill to the playoffs. 

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In September 2016 he marked with the Lahore Qalandars for the 2017 period of the Pakistan Super League and will be the group's captain. 

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He additionally played in the inaugural Indian Premier League competition in 2008 to Kolkata Knight Riders. On 18 April 2008 in the main ever IPL coordinate, he accomplished the most noteworthy Twenty20 individual score in an innings. This overshadowed the past record characteristic of 141, held by Australian Cameron White. Circumstantially, McCullum confronted an over from White amid the match and scored 24 from it; it was White's just finished in that match. This record was in the end broken by Chris Gayle when he heaped on 175 keeps running in IPL 2013. In a similar match he likewise guaranteed the record for most sixes (13) in a Twenty20 innings, which was later outperformed by Englishman Graham Napier (16). 

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He was purchased by Kochi Tuskers Kerala in the 2011 IPL barters. He came back to the Knight Riders in 2012. In the 2014 IPL barters, McCullum was purchased by Chennai Super Kings. He was given the part of opening the innings alongside West Indian Dwayne Smith and the combine was considered as the most risky opening pair in the group's history. In 2018 he was discharged by CSK and purchased by Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2018. He as of now plays for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL establishment. And also that he has shown up for Hibiscus Coast Cricket Club of Orewa, New Zealand.

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Amid the RCB's season opener against Kolkata Knight Riders amid the 2018 IPL season, he achieved 9000 keeps running in all types of T20 cricket and turned out to be just the second player after Chris Gayle to accomplish the point of reference.

International career

Early days

In 2004, he played in a Test arrangement against England and scored what was then his most noteworthy score, an innings of 96 at Lord's. His lady Test century came a while later when he scored 143 against Bangladesh. He missed the mark concerning his second Test hundred of every a diversion against Sri Lanka when rejected one shy of his hundred. His second century would later accompany a run a ball 111 against Zimbabwe. 

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He was chosen in the 20-man ICC World XI squad for the ICC Super Series in July 2005. On 20 February 2007, he scored 86 not out as New Zealand went ahead to be the principal group to whitewash Australia in a three-coordinate ODI arrangement since 1997. Amid the innings he joined forces with Craig McMillan to score 165, equalling the world record for a sixth wicket partnership. 

On 31 December 2007 he scored 50 from only 19 balls against Bangladesh. He completed his innings with 80 keeps running from just 28 balls, including 9 fours and 6 sixes with a strike rate of 285.71. 

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On 22 December 2015, McCullum declared his expectation to resign from International cricket toward the finish of the southern summer in his home test against Australia, as opposed to after the 2016 ICC World Twenty20. He played his last ODI coordinate against Australia on 8 February 2016 in which he scored 47 off 27 and New Zealand beat Australia by 55 runs in this manner winning the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy 2– 1. 

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On 22 February 2016, McCullum played his last innings in a Test Match against Australia. He scored 25 off 27, when he was rejected by Josh Hazlewood one ball in the wake of hitting him for a 6. McCullum was given a protect of respect upon passage onto the field, and was given an overwhelming applause once rejected. Brendon McCullum on his retirement said that the time was on the whole correct to stop global cricket and said that he ideally left and brought some fun and satisfaction and some genuine culture again into the set-up in the time that he had as skipper.

Record breaking

On 5 April 2009, on day three of the third Test match during India's tour of New 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 before the ball had even pitched and moved swiftly to his left (Dravid's leg side). Ross Taylor at first slip did the same. The ball came nicely off Dravid's bat, but flew straight into the hands of a waiting Brendon McCullum. A couple of balls earlier, McCullum tried the same thing, but he had been a little slow and Dravid's sweep was kept low. Although there has been some discussion regarding the legality of McCullum's movement before the ball had even pitched, the laws of cricket indicate he was well within his right to do so.

On 6 November 2009, against Pakistan at Abu Dhabi, McCullum scored his second ODI century of 131 to elevate New Zealand to 303 and win the match to level the series. On 16 February 2010, during the only Test match against Bangladesh, he scored 185, which is the highest score ever by a New Zealand wicket-keeper in Test cricket. He was also involved in the record highest sixth-wicket partnership for New Zealand of 339 runs with Martin Guptill, missing out on the world record by just 12 runs.

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On 27 February 2010, McCullum became the second player to score a T20I hundred, finishing 116 not out, one run short of Chris Gayle's record of 117. On 4 May 2010 McCullum became the first player to score 1,000 T20 international runs. He achieved this feat playing against Zimbabwe in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 at Guyana.

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On 28 June 2010, McCullum announced that he will not keep wicket for New Zealand in Test matches. He, however informed that he will still keep in 50-overs & T20 over games. He did a fine job in his first innings since handing over the Wicket-keeping duties he scored 65 runs and was engaged in a 104 run partnership with Ross Taylor he was promoted to the position of opener in tests rather than his usual number 5 position. McCullum did however have experience of opening the innings because he opens for New Zealand in limited-overs cricket.

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On 21 September 2012 at the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 tournament in Sri Lanka, McCullum scored 123 runs against Bangladesh at Pallekele, setting a new record for the highest Twenty20 International innings, and becoming the first player to score two Twenty20 International centuries. This record was broken by Aaron Finch against England, when he scored 156. However McCullum is one of the two players to have scored two Twenty20 International centuries along with West Indian Chris Gayle.

Captaincy

In 2014 at the Basin Reserve in Wellington, McCullum scored 302 runs in the third innings of the second test against India, becoming the first New Zealand batsman to score a triple-century. He shared a 352 run partnership with BJ Watling, then a record sixth wicket stand, rescuing New Zealand from a likely innings defeat. McCullum closed the innings at 680/8d, both the highest ever innings by New Zealand, and the highest ever third innings in Test cricket history.

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On 21 November 2014, McCullum took his first ever wicket at test level, a caught-and-bowled of Pakistan's Sarfraz Ahmed during their second test. On 29 November 2014, McCullum scored a century on day 2 of the third test against the same opposition, in which both teams decided to call off play on the day before as a tribute to Phillip Hughes, and hand-written P.H. under each player's squad number as a further mark of respect. He was bowled out on 202 after hitting ten sixes in his innings, by far a record for New Zealand opening batsman. Two years after his debut as NZ captain, in which the team was bowled out for a paltry 45, Black Caps returned to respectability.

On 13 December 2014, McCullum was named New Zealander of the Year by the New Zealand Herald beating out stiff competition from Lane Pilkington due to his continued co-operation with ICC over the match-fixing scandal which resulted in Chris Cairns being charged for lying to court, and also for changing the perception of the Black Caps as easy-beats.

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On the first day of the Boxing Day Test at Hagley Oval, McCullum scored 195 in the first innings against Sri Lanka, which gave him 1000 test runs in a calendar year, becoming the first New Zealander to reach this milestone (1164 at the end of the match, with Kane Williamson at 929), and the fastest test century (in 74 balls), beating his own record against Pakistan in Sharjah. He fell 5 runs shy of his 4th 200+ scores in a calendar year. His 33 sixes in test cricket in a single calendar year is also a world record. It is also worth noting that New Zealand only played 9 test matches in 2014. He also helped to push New Zealand to score 429/7 on day one, the most runs New Zealand had ever scored in a single day of play in test cricket. It ended with an 8-wicket win, which made it 5 test wins out of 9 in 2014, the most wins in a calendar year. He also closed the year with a triple century and two double centuries, the third person to do so after Donald Bradman and Michael Clarke.

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On 3 January 2015 McCullum returned to Basin Reserve, where he scored his triple century against India. While he got a 2-ball duck on a green pitch and three errors as a fielder, he was given a key to Wellington, a symbolic equivalent of "Honorary Citizen", in recognition of his heroics the previous year, becoming the third person to receive the honour after Wellington-born Sir Peter Jackson and Sir Richard Taylor, who were recognised by the city for their work on the Lord of The Rings movies.

Late career

McCullum also led New Zealand in 2015 Cricket World Cup, which was co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia. On 20 February 2015, in New Zealand's third Pool A match against England, McCullum scored 77 runs off 25 balls, recording the fastest 50 in World Cup history (51 runs off 18 balls) and the 4th fastest fifty of all time. McCullum led the New Zealand team to their first World Cup final, scoring timely innings in the pool match against Australia and South Africa in the semi-final. The semi-final victory was New Zealand's first after six semi-final losses in the past. In the final against Australia, McCullum was bowled for a duck in just the first over of the match by Mitchell Starc, as New Zealand went on to lose to Australia by 7 wickets.

On 21 May 2015, McCullum started in his 93rd consecutive test, and batted in his preferred spot at no. 5. On 13 December 2015, on McCullum's 98th consecutive test start, he scored his 100th six hit in test cricket, tying the record by Adam Gilchrist. On 12 February 2016, McCullum started his 100th consecutive test, but was dismissed in both innings by Mitchell Marsh, making Marsh the second person since Jason Gillespie to dismiss him on both innings of 2 test matches.

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On 20 February 2016, in his final test in his adopted home of Christchurch, becoming the only member left from the last Trans-Tasman test in Christchurch in the pre-earthquake AMI Stadium. The third day of the test was the 5th anniversary of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. He hit his 102nd career six to surpass Adam Gilchrist as the most prolific six-hitter in test cricket. He went on to score a century off 54 balls, beating joint record by West Indian Viv Richard and Pakistani Misbah-ul-Haq's record for the fastest test century by 2 balls. He also became the second player since Jason Gillespie to score a hundred or more in his final test. McCullum also recorded the highest (170) runs scorer by the captain in farewell test and 1st captain to score a ton in farewell test. He also took four catches as a fielder at first slip, deputising for the injured Ross Taylor.

Playing style

McCullum initially played in the side as a wicketkeeper-batsman. His glove work enhanced amid his residency as the New Zealand wicketkeeper. His batting is adequate to gain him determination for the Black Caps alone, appeared by the events on which he has been not able keep however has still been chosen as a batsman. He opens the batting for New Zealand in ODIs with relentlessly enhancing achievement. He is a forceful batsman who is especially solid over additional cover, regularly hurling the ball into the stands, and furthermore square-cutting, or square-driving the ball. He is likewise proficient at utilizing the scoop shot, notwithstanding utilizing it at tests, to such an extent that McScoop was named after him. In 2010 McCullum hung up the gloves In Test cricket because of proceeded with body strain and turned into a master batsmen in Test cricket, opening the innings in his first match as a pro batsmen against India in Ahmedabad. He was portrayed as a player "particularly suited to Twenty20 cricket" when he marked for a five-week spell at Glamorgan in June 2006. The spell incorporated the whole local 2006 Twenty20 Cup. He was joined by the Kolkata Knight Riders of the IPL for $700,000. His agreement with the IPL was for a long time. In 2016, he was marked by the substitution/development group Gujarat Lions for US$1.1 million, making him the most generously compensated abroad player in the group's establishment squad. 

He can play the Dilscoop (which was developed by Sri Lankan Tillakaratne Dilshan or unequivocally the slope shot, which includes the batsman crouching and scooping conveyances back finished the wicketkeeper's zone. The two shots has its own particular qualification, where Dilscoop is played ideal over the wicket-manager's head, yet incline shot can be played in sideways of the wicket-attendant too. Playing this slope shot in a Twenty20 International match on 28 February 2010 in Lancaster Park, against Australia, he figured out how to hit Shaun Tait for two sixes out of an over back finished Brad Haddin's head, compelling Australia to set a stopping board (the defender close to the limit behind the wicketkeeper or first slip) in his last test coordinate. He can likewise execute switch clear well. He likewise likes to cut, cover drive, or propel the wicket to punch the roll together for limits from a batting position remaining on or outside leg stump. 

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Amid the Twenty20 World Championship in 2009, the wicketkeeping obligations was given to Peter McGlashan. He was seen rehearsing his medium rocking the bowling alley. McCullum needed to choose whether to play for New South Wales, KKR, or Otago in the first version of the Champions League Twenty20. Since KKR did not qualify, he had just to think about playing for either New South Wales or Otago; in the long run he had chosen to play for Otago nearby sibling Nathan McCullum. 

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In 2012, BJ Watling turned into McCullum's substitution as wicketkeeper in Tests, however because of Luke Ronchi's battles in ODIs, McCullum still stayed as wicketkeeper in ODIs and T20s. Be that as it may, by late 2013, McCullum's repeating back issues implied he can never again perform wicketkeeping obligations successfully, he surrendered his gloves to Ronchi in ODIs and T20s, and McCullum turned into a center request batsman, or as a cover for opening the batting in tests, having batted at 1,2,5– 7 in his profession, while his handling position turns out to be overwhelmingly mid-off, mid-on or mid-wicket, and in his last global matches, he finished at first slip after the damage to Ross Taylor. He is additionally a seldomly-utilized low maintenance medium pace bowler in tests. He got his first wicket in all types of universal cricket from a got and-knocked down some pins against Sarfraz Ahmed of Pakistan which finished their first innings in 2014. McCullum was picked for 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup as an opening batsman because of irregularities from Martin Guptill and Tom Latham and the development of Grant Elliott as a strong choice at number five batsman. His part as a substitute saw the group achieve their first historically speaking World Cup last. After the World Cup, he came back to his favored spot at number five for tests. He still every so often keeps wickets for residential T20s until 2015. 

International recognition

In the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honors McCullum was delegated an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for administrations to cricket. 

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He won the New Zealand Sportsman Of The Year grant in 2014, and afterward the Sport New Zealand Leadership Award in 2016.

Beyond cricket

McCullum has since been engaged with setting up CricHQ with the organization's CEO Simon Baker and previous New Zealand cricketer Stephen Fleming. The cricket rivalry administration programming and live scoring stage deals with the organization of cricket test nations New Zealand, Sri Lanka, South Africa and Zimbabwe with 49 of 105 national representing bodies additionally utilize its administrations from club level upwards. 20 other prominent cricketing names have put resources into the organization. In June 2015 it raised US$10m from Singapore private value firm Tembusu Partners to grow comprehensively.

International centuries

Test centuries

One-Day International centuries

Twenty20 International centuries