Matches (25)
BAN vs SA (1)
WBBL (1)
Super50 (2)
IND Women vs NZ Women (1)
WCL 2 (1)
Ranji Trophy (16)
Ranji Trophy Plate (3)

Full Name

Timothy Grant Southee

Born

December 11, 1988, Whangarei, Northland

Age

35y 324d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Medium fast

Playing Role

Bowler

Tim Southee, a right-arm swing bowler, burst upon the international scene in great style. He was still only 19, with only one T20I cap behind him, and fresh from a Player-of-the-Tournament performance at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup when he was handed a Test debut against England in Napier. Southee responded with 5 for 55 before smashing 77 off 40 balls in the second innings with nine sixes.

It was a debut that gave a clear indication of the career to come. Over the next decade or so, Southee would go on to form one of the world's best new-ball partnerships with Trent Boult, and would also come to be known for his ability to clear the fence. He hit his 50th six in only his 36th Test.

In 2022 he was named as New Zealand's Test captain when Kane Williamson stood down from the role.

Pace and outswing are the main tools of Southee's trade. His bag of 18 wickets at 17.33 in the 2011 World Cup prompted Allan Donald to say he had the potential to become the best swing bowler in the world, and though frequent injury-forced absences have kept him from fulfilling that prophecy, he has shown he can be devastating across a wide range of conditions.

In 2012, he showed his adaptability in the subcontinent, picking up 7 for 64 in Bangalore, the best figures for a New Zealand bowler in India, before bowling his side to a rare win in Sri Lanka with match figures of 8 for 120 at the P Sara Oval. Two years later, his 11 wickets in the West Indies, at 21.09, helped New Zealand achieve their first series win away from home, against anyone other than Bangladesh or Zimbabwe, in 12 years. In ODIs, his landmark performance came at the 2015 World Cup, when he sliced through England's batting with a sensational spell of swing bowling to finish with figures of 7 for 33, the best bowling figures for a New Zealander in ODIs.

Southee was elevated as a stand-in captain in a T20I in 2017 and then an ODI in 2018. But despite standing in as captain and remaining a key Test and T20 bowler, he fell out of favour in the ODI side due to the form of Matt Henry and Lockie Ferguson and only played one match in the 2019 World Cup, but was still around the format four years later.
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Tim Southee Career Stats

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests10419723082115063857/6410/10829.882.9959.919151
ODIs161159807574482217/337/3333.705.5336.5530
T20Is126123275336711645/185/1822.388.0016.7220
FC14627130558151525508/2710/10827.542.9755.525261
List A176174884481122417/337/3333.655.5036.6530
T20s273268589679603336/166/1623.908.1017.7240

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests10415011218577*15.71264882.510721193830
ODIs16196357405512.1377195.97015926440
T20Is12650233033911.22218138.99002018650
FC14620116301715616.30367082.2019304117970
List A1761083689566*12.4390798.67027332500
T20s273125458897411.11635140.000265481280

Tim Southee T20 Stats

Bowling

TournamentTeamsMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
The Hundred Men's Competition2 teams101019021617 5/12 5/1212.706.8211.1010
IPL5 teams54541206174247 3/20 3/2037.068.6625.6000
Vitality Blast2 teams282658275437 6/16 6/1620.377.7715.7010
Champions LeagueND771421878 3/22 3/2223.377.9017.7000

Batting & Fielding

TournamentTeamsMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
The Hundred Men's Competition2 teams1032535.00683.33000050
IPL5 teams5420712036*9.23107112.140084230
Vitality Blast2 teams282392297416.35138165.94021514130
Champions LeagueND730402113.3324166.66004230
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Recent Matches of Tim Southee

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
New Zealand vs India5 & 01/18 & 0/1524-Oct-2024PuneTest # 2557
New Zealand vs India651/8 & 1/5316-Oct-2024BengaluruTest # 2555
New Zealand vs Sri Lanka2 & 101/7026-Sep-2024GalleTest # 2551
New Zealand vs Sri Lanka3 & 21/48 & 0/3918-Sep-2024GalleTest # 2549
Phoenix vs Brave--0/1817-Aug-2024The OvalT20

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Tim Southee produced a peach to send Rohit Sharma back for no-score
Tim Southee broke a 177-run stand with Sarfaraz Khan's wicket
Tim Southee registered his seventh Test fifty
Tim Southee whacks a six over square leg
Tim Southee went past Virender Sehwag on the all-time six-hitters list in Test cricket
Rachin Ravindra and Tim Southee brought up their century partnership off 90 balls for the eighth wicket