Full Name

Thomas Ackland Blundell

Born

September 01, 1990, Wellington

Age

32y 207d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Offbreak

Fielding Position

Wicketkeeper

Playing Role

Wicketkeeper Batter

An aggressive wicketkeeper-batsman with a variety of sweeps in his repertoire, Tom Blundell enjoyed a dream start to 2017. In the space of three days, he earned his maiden call-up to the New Zealand squad, as a replacement for the injured Luke Ronchi, for the third T20I against Bangladesh in Mount Maunganui, won the Super Smash - the national T20 tournament - with Wellington, and then received his maiden international cap from Corey Anderson. A couple of weeks later, Blundell was called-up to the ODI squad for the Chappell-Hadlee series at home against Australia.

He was part of the New Zealand U-19 World Cup squad in 2010 alongside Tom Latham, James Neesham, and Doug Bracewell. He made his first-class and List A debuts for Wellington in 2013. After an inconsistent first three seasons in domestic cricket, Blundell had a breakthrough season in 2015-16 in which he made 1073 runs in 28 matches across all formats. He followed it with 537 runs in 17 matches in the 2016-17 season. His tally of 243 runs in nine innings was the highest by a wicketkeeper-batsman in the Super Smash in 2016-17.

Career Averages
Batting & Fielding
FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Test26435165813843.63332249.9041020956810
ODI220312215.503588.57004010
T20I7625930*14.757578.66004030
FC9616320549015338.391015154.0814277172223316
List A60532142715127.98172082.961714012545
T206054611607924.16930124.730910230372
Bowling
FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Test26118130---4.33-000
ODI2------------
T20I7------------
FC965966511/151/2765.004.0696.0000
List A60------------
T20601140---24.00-000
Thomas Ackland Blundell
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Test
ODI
T20I
Recent Matches - Player
MatchBatWktDateGroundFormat
New Zealand vs Sri Lanka17*2c/1s & 0c/0s17-Mar-2023WellingtonTest # 2500
New Zealand vs Sri Lanka7 & 33c/0s & 4c/0s09-Mar-2023ChristchurchTest # 2498
New Zealand vs England38 & 901c/1s & 2c/0s24-Feb-2023WellingtonTest # 2494
New Zealand vs England138 & 10c/0s & 3c/2s16-Feb-2023Mount MaunganuiTest # 2492
Wellington vs Auckland01c/0s05-Feb-2023WellingtonT20
Photos
New Zealand's players pose with the trophy after completing the series win
Michael Bracewell, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell and Tom Blundell celebrate a wicket
Blair Tickner celebrates with his team-mates
Asitha Fernando took out Tom Blundell's middle stump with a searing yorker
New Zealand's players line up for the national anthem
Tom Blundell celebrates running out Harry Brook