Gary Stead

New Zealand

Full name Gary Raymond Stead

Born January 9, 1972, Christchurch, Canterbury

Current age 49 years 11 days

Major teams New Zealand, Canterbury

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Legbreak

Other Coach

Relation Father - DW Stead, Brother - WW Stead

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	5	8	0	278	78	34.75	671	41.43	0	2	36	0	2
First-class	101	165	10	4984	190	32.15			10	24			46
List A	103	90	12	2173	101*	27.85			2	10			37

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w
Tests	5	1	6	1	0	-	-	-	1.00	-	0
First-class	101		1053	587	9	4/58		65.22	3.34	117.0
List A	103		48	43	1	1/20	1/20	43.00	5.37	48.0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	New Zealand v South Africa at Christchurch, Mar 11-15, 1999 scorecard
Last Test	New Zealand v West Indies at Wellington, Dec 26-29, 1999 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class debut	1991/92
Last First-class	Wellington v Canterbury at Wellington, Mar 26-29, 2006 scorecard
List A debut	1994/95
Last List A	Auckland v Canterbury at Auckland, Jan 7, 2006 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
36	Canterbury	v Wellington	Wellington	26 Mar 2006	FC
6, 3, 1/0	Canterbury	v Central D	Christchurch	18 Mar 2006	FC
7, 5	Canterbury	v Otago	Queenstown	11 Mar 2006	FC
51	Canterbury	v Northern D	Hamilton	27 Feb 2006	FC
67, 29	Canterbury	v Central D	Christchurch	20 Feb 2006	FC
0*	Canterbury	v Auckland	Auckland	7 Jan 2006	LA
-	Canterbury	v Northern D	Taupo	4 Jan 2006	LA
36, 0	Canterbury	v Auckland	Christchurch	12 Dec 2005	FC
16, 6	Canterbury	v Wellington	Christchurch	5 Dec 2005	FC

Profile

An top-order batsman, Gary Stead played five Tests in nine months in 1999, averaging a decent 34.75 and never being dismissed in single figures. Against South Africa he showed his great character, digging in and grinding out runs, but after two mediocre performances against West Indies he was dropped. He later took to coaching, first working with the New Zealand Cricket High Performance Centre, before taking over the national women's team in July 2008. He coached the women's side to the finals of the 2009 World Cup and 2010 World T20, before taking over Canterbury and overseeing their run to four domestic titles in four seasons between 2013-14 and 2016-2017. All this culminated in him being named New Zealand men's coach in August 2018, taking over from the highly successful Mike Hesson.
ESPNcricinfo staff

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