Mark Craig

New Zealand

Full name Mark Donald Craig

Born March 23, 1987, Auckland

Current age 31 years 28 days

Major teams New Zealand, Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire 2nd XI, Otago, Otago A

Playing role Bowler

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Explore Mark Craig's performance

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	15	25	9	589	67	36.81	1083	54.38	0	3	65	10	14
First-class	59	88	15	1877	104	25.71	3580	52.43	1	8	229	27	51
List A	22	18	4	327	46	23.35	346	94.50	0	0	25	7	12
T20s	19	7	3	41	19	10.25	39	105.12	0	0	2	1	11

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	15	29	3669	2326	50	7/94	10/203	46.52	3.80	73.3	3	1	1
First-class	59	103	11097	6317	149	7/94	10/203	42.39	3.41	74.4	7	5	1
List A	22	20	940	824	19	3/6	3/6	43.36	5.25	49.4	0	0	0
T20s	19	19	282	405	7	3/29	3/29	57.85	8.61	40.2	0	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	West Indies v New Zealand at Kingston, Jun 8-11, 2014 scorecard
Last Test	India v New Zealand at Kanpur, Sep 22-26, 2016 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class debut	Central Districts v Otago at Napier, Feb 24-27, 2011 scorecard
Last First-class	Northern Districts v Otago at Whangarei, Mar 17-20, 2018 scorecard
List A debut	Northern Districts v Otago at Mount Maunganui, Mar 13, 2013 scorecard
Last List A	Otago v Northern Districts at Dunedin, Feb 7, 2018 scorecard
T20s debut	Otago v Canterbury at Dunedin, Feb 4, 2009 scorecard
Last T20s	Otago v Auckland at Alexandra, Dec 28, 2017 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
9*	Otago	v Northern D	Whangarei	17 Mar 2018	FC
4/42, 5, 0/74, 25	Otago	v Wellington	Dunedin	10 Mar 2018	FC
29, 4/43, 16, 1/68	Otago	v Central D	Napier	1 Mar 2018	FC
2/58, 22	Otago	v Northern D	Dunedin	7 Feb 2018	LA
14, 0/27	Otago	v Wellington	Wellington	31 Jan 2018	LA
2/51, 18	NZ XI	v Pakistanis	Nelson	3 Jan 2018	LA
6*, 0/46	Otago	v Auckland	Alexandra	28 Dec 2017	T20
19, 0/21	Otago	v Canterbury	Alexandra	26 Dec 2017	T20
0/19, 1	Otago	v Northern D	Hamilton	23 Dec 2017	T20
1/50	NZ XI	v West Indians	Whangarei	16 Dec 2017	Other OD

Profile

An offspinner whose cricket career was initially blighted by chronic fatigue syndrome, Mark Craig was a surprise inclusion for New Zealand's Test tour of the West Indies in 2014 when Daniel Vettori and Jeetan Patel were both unavailable. However, he justified that inclusion immediately, taking 8 for 188 in his debut Test, in Jamaica, and spinning New Zealand to only their second Test win in the Caribbean. His figures were the best by a New Zealand bowler on debut, and he became only the third player from the country - after Stephen Fleming and Mathew Sinclair - to win a Man-of-the-Match award on Test debut.

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