Tim Southee

Personal information
Full name	Timothy Grant Southee
Born	11 December 1988 (1988-12-11) (age 21) Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm fast-medium
International information
National side	New Zealand
Test debut (cap 237)	22 March 2008 v England
Last Test	3 April 2009 v India
ODI debut (cap 149)	15 June 2008 v England
Last ODI	9 November 2009 v Pakistan
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2006–present	Northern Districts
Career statistics
Competition	Test	ODI	FC	List A
Matches	5	24	27	32
Runs scored	127	101	404	153
Batting average	18.14	11.22	13.93	9.56
100s/50s	0/1	0/0	0/2	0/0
Top score	77*	32	77*	32
Balls bowled	927	1,194	5,383	1,641
Wickets	12	30	93	40
Bowling average	47.91	35.03	28.55	35.82
5 wickets in innings	1	0	5	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	0	n/a
Best bowling	5/55	4/38	8/27	4/38
Catches/stumpings	1/–	2/–	5/–	4/–
Source: CricketArchive, 12 December 2009

Timothy Grant Southee (born 11 December 1988 in Whangarei, New Zealand) is a New Zealand cricketer. He is a right-arm fast-medium bowler and hard-hitting lower order batsman, who plays for Northern Districts in the State Championship and Northland in the Hawke Cup. He was educated at King's College, Auckland, and made his first-class debut for Northern Districts on 19 February 2007 at the age of eighteen.

[edit] International career

After an impressive start to his career with Northern Districts, Southee was picked to play for a New Zealand side in a Twenty20 match against a Bangladesh side on December 23, 2007. The game was a charity match for cyclone relief in Bangladesh.

On 30 January 2008, Southee was named in the New Zealand squad for two Twenty20 International games and three One Day International games against England. New Zealand Cricket Selection Manager, Sir Richard Hadlee said:^[1]

"Why delay producing a player of some talent? Perhaps I could compare him with Brendon McCullum when he started (in 2002) - he had a lot of potential. It might take a lot of time for Tim to find his feet but why wait two or three years when someone is in a special category? The feed back we're getting is that this guy has got it. "He runs in relatively straight, he gets through his action nicely and he moves the ball, particularly away from the batsman."

He made his official international debut on 5 February 2008 in the first Twenty20 match. In the second match, Southee was New Zealand's best bowler with figures of 2/22 from four overs.^[2]

Southee then traveled to Malaysia to play in the 2008 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, where he finished as Player-of-the-Tournament after taking 17 wickets at 6.64 with an economy rate of 2.52 runs per over.^[3]

After an injury ruled Kyle Mills out of the third Test match of England's tour, Southee was picked to make his Test match debut on 22 March 2008 at Napier. He had an immediate impact in the first day's play, dismissing Michael Vaughan and Andrew Strauss in his second and third overs, and then later claiming the wicket of Kevin Pietersen. On the second day's play he took the two wickets needed to complete a debut five-wicket haul, finishing with 5-55. During New Zealand's second innings against England, whilst chasing an improbable target of 553, Southee launched an attack on the England bowlers hitting nine sixes and four fours, with his debut fifty coming off twenty-nine balls. The fifty was the fastest in New Zealand test history, replacing Ian Smith's previous record of thirty four balls. He eventually finished on 77* from 40 balls. Only four other test cricketers have hit more sixes in an innings, Wally Hammond, Nathan Astle, Matthew Hayden and Wasim Akram.^[4]

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• Player Profile: Tim Southee from Cricinfo
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• Tim Southee at New Zealand Cricket Players Association