Craig Derek Cumming (born 31 August 1975 in Timaru) is a former New Zealand cricketer. He has played with The Pareora Cricket Club and the New Zealand cricket team in One Day Internationals and Tests. He is also the captain of the Otago cricket team, competing in the State Championship, State Shield and State Twenty20 competitions in the 2006/2007 season.
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Domestic career
Cumming is a right-handed opening batsman who had played 99 First Class games, 103 "List A" or limited overs games and 9 Twenty20 games at the end of the 2006/2007 season. He played for Canterbury early in his career and debuted in First Class and "List A" cricket for them.
Cumming has played for South Canterbury in the Hawke Cup.
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International career
On 5 March 2005 against Australia, he was the recipient of, what is called the fastest over ever in New Zealand, bowled by Brett Lee, in which he clocked 160.8 km/h (99.9 mph) at Napier as the fastest delivery of the over.
After cricket
Currently he is a broadcaster for Newstalk ZB in Dunedin hosting local sports shows and producing 'The Country' which airs between midday and 1pm on Newstalk ZB and Radio Sport. He is also one of the domestic Sky Sport commentator for domestic cricket and international home matches, often giving titbits and trivia on cricket terms and hosting Dilmah tea parties during the tea breaks in Test matches.
See also
- List of Otago representative cricketers
References
External links
- Craig Cumming at ESPNcricinfo
- Craig Cumming at CricketArchive (subscription required)
- Craig Cumming at New Zealand Cricket Players Association
Source of article : Wikipedia
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