Mark Craig

New Zealand

Full name Mark Donald Craig

Born March 23, 1987, Auckland

Current age 33 years 136 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

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	60	90	15	1902	104	25.36	3625	52.46	1	8	231	27	53
List A	25	20	4	336	46	21.00	363	92.56	0	0	26	7	16
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	60	105	11129	6359	151	7/94	10/203	42.11	3.42	73.7	7	5	1
List A	25	23	1102	931	21	3/6	3/6	44.33	5.06	52.4	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 Mount Maunganui, Oct 10-12, 2018 scorecard
List A debut	Northern Districts v Otago at Mount Maunganui, Mar 13, 2013 scorecard
Last List A	Wellington v Otago at Wellington, Oct 31, 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
0/48, 3	Otago	v Wellington	Wellington	31 Oct 2018	LA
1/19	Otago	v Northern D	Hamilton	28 Oct 2018	LA
1/40, 6	Otago	v Central D	Nelson	24 Oct 2018	LA
21, 2/32, 4, 0/10	Otago	v Northern D	Mount Maunganui	10 Oct 2018	FC
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

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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