"Stephen Fleming Stephen Paul Fleming, ONZM (born 1 April 1973) is a former New Zealand cricketer, and captain of the New Zealand national cricket team in all three formats of the game. Known for his astute tactical abilities, he is New Zealand's second-most capped Test player with 111 appearances, longest-serving and most successful captain, having led the side to 28 victories and having won Test match series' against India, England, West Indies, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. He is also the winning captain of the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy, which is New Zealand's only ICC trophy to win up to"
"Damien Fleming Damien William Fleming (born 24 April 1970) is a former Australian cricketer who played for the Australian national team and domestic cricket for Victoria. He played in 20 Tests and 88 ODIs from 1994 to 2001 and was an important part of the all-conquering Australian teams under Steve Waugh and Mark Taylor. In recent years Fleming has spent time refining his theory of Bowlology, a set of scientific coaching principles to help developing bowlers. Injury problems shortened his career, with the side-on bowling action that generated his swing, also putting more strain on his body. Fleming's 20 Tests"
"between 1978 and 1982 in 21 Tests including the 1980 Grand Slam – England's first since 1957. Later that year, he captained the British Lions to South Africa – the first time an Englishman had captained the Lions since 1930. Furthermore, Beaumont represented the Barbarians FC on fifteen occasions. The youngest ever England captain at 22, Will Carling represented England in 72 Tests, and as captain 59 times between 1988 and 1996. He was best known as a superlative leader, motivating England to a remarkable three Grand Slams in five years, including back to back slams in 1991 and 1992."
"256 runs for the 8th wicket, the highest partnership to date in Tests between New Zealand and South Africa. It is also a New Zealand record for the 8th wicket against any country. On 25 October 2006, Fleming captained his country for the 194th time in an ODI – a world record, overtaking Arjuna Ranatunga. He played well throughout the 2007 World Cup scoring 353 runs at an average of 39.22 and was New Zealand's second highest run scorer in the tournament.He failed in the semi-final against Sri Lanka scoring just 1 off 4 balls as New Zealand went on"
"to Nasser Hussain, originally selected him in place of Mark Butcher for the fourth Test against Australia, before having a change of heart and reinstating Butcher. Nonetheless, Fulton was named Player of the Year by the Professional Cricketers' Association at the end of the season. The 2002 season saw Fulton share the captaincy with Matthew Fleming, with Fulton leading the side in first-class cricket and Fleming leading in one-day matches. The captaincy did not affect his batting, as he scored 1358 runs, his second thousand-run season in succession. The Australian captain Steve Waugh, in his brief spell as overseas player"
"November 1996 when he captained New Zealand to its first test victory over Pakistan, in Pakistan for 26 years. ESPN cricinfo rates Germon's one day cricket captaincy success rate at 44.44%; this is below his successor Stephen Fleming's 48.04% success rate but represented an improvement on Ken Rutherfords 30% success rate. While New Zealand won only one ODI series, against Zimbabwe during Germon's time in charge, they did win 15 games and drew two. Germon's first one-day series in charge was against India in India and it resulted in a closely contested 3 to 2 series defeat. He captained New"
"Matthew Fleming Matthew Valentine Fleming (born 12 December 1964) is a former cricketer who represented Kent and England, and was President of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) from 2016 to 2017. Fleming's great-grandfather was Charles Leslie who played cricket for England and Middlesex in the 1880s. He is also great-nephew of Ian Fleming, popularly known as the creator of James Bond. Fleming's first 2 scoring shots in first-class cricket were sixes. He played 11 One Day Internationals for England from 1997 to 1998. He captained Kent for several seasons. Fleming was a very effective all-rounder, hard hitting batsman and medium-pace bowler"
"It has hosted a total of 6 T20Is, 22 ODIs and 20 Test matches. The first ODI played here was between New Zealand and India on 15 February 1981, which New Zealand won by 57 runs. The first Test match was played on February 22–26, 1991, between New Zealand and Sri Lanka, which was a draw. Stephen Fleming has the highest Test score on the ground, 192 versus Pakistan in 2003, and holds the highest Test aggregate for the ground of 789 runs. The ground was also used for one season in 2001 for the majority of Waikato and Chiefs"
"aged 38. Dean Jones, who did not play in any of the Test matches on the tour, also retired from international cricket at the end of the series. Bowler Damien Fleming was included for the ODI portions of the tour only, with Merv Hughes not considered for these matches. The South African team was captained by Kepler Wessels who had recovered from an injury sustained during the tour of Australia. Wessels was named as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1995. The three Test series was played between 4 and 29 March. Australian Steve Waugh was"
"the record of 59 Tests as captain held by Australia's George Gregan and England's Will Carling. The following week, he became the most-capped captain in international rugby history. As of September 2009, Smit is one of South Africa's most successful captains ever, having led the Springboks to victory in 46 of the 64 games that he captained, a win percentage of 72%. He has won more tests as captain than any other Springbok has played as captain. On 23 August 2010, he played his 100th Test – only the 15th player ever, and second South African to reach that milestone."
"with Bangladesh and Australia. Fletcher was appointed coach of the India national cricket team on 27 April 2011, with a two-year contract. Fletcher had been one of the leading candidates for the appointment and bagged the job ahead of names like former New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming and former Zimbabwe skipper Andy Flower. Fletcher is reported to have been outgoing India coach Gary Kirsten's recommendation. Under Fletcher's coaching, the Indian national team achieved 8 series victory in a row in 2013 including Champions Trophy. His contract ended after the World Cup in March 2015 and was not renewed. He was"
"dismissal from the New Zealand team was highly controversial. It caused protest, especially in Canterbury. New Zealand convenor of selectors of the time Ross Dykes admitted to receiving hate mail and anonymous phone calls over the issue. Germon is one of the few wicketkeepers who have played over ten tests and affected more dismissal than conceded byes. He affected 29 dismissals in test cricket and conceded 24 byes. Lee Germon was replaced as New Zealand captain by his Canterbury team mate Stephen Fleming, a player he had tipped as a player for the future in the 1993 ""Who’s who of"
"played well in his final series, scoring 297 in six innings. In the first innings of the second test against England, he scored his 7000th run in his 110th match. In his final test at, Napier, he scored half-centuries in both innings to ensure that he finished with a Test match average of over 40 (40.06). Fleming was an elegant left handed batsman and played shots such as the flick off the pads, straight drive, cover drive and cut shots. He was also a clever captain and his field placings for many batsmen like Damien Martyn at point and aggressive"
"years. (Richard Hadlee was their star then, narrowly missing the county 'double'). There was speculation in 2007 that he might join controversial Indian rebel Twenty20 league, the Indian Cricket League. However it turned out to be unfounded and he has since joined the 'official' Indian Twenty20 league, the Indian Premier League, and played for the Chennai Super Kings in the league's initial incarnation. A left-handed batsman, Fleming made his Test debut in March 1994 against India winning the Man of the Match award on debut after scoring 92. In 1995 he survived controversy when he was caught and admitted to"
"refereed two semi finals - Australia v New Zealand (1991) and France v New Zealand (1999) as well as three quarter finals, Ireland v Australia (1991), South Africa v Samoa (1995) and England v South Africa (1999).He also refereed the opening match of the 1991 Rugby World Cup between England and New Zealand. He refereed the Women's World Cup Final in 1994 between England and the USA. He was an international referee for 18 seasons and is still Scotland's most capped referee. In the six years he officiated in the European (Heinekin) Cup, Fleming refereed 4 Cup semi finals, 1"
"Sri Lanka and East Africa were the only two teams without Test status. In the best World Cup performance to date by a bowler, Gary Gilmour took 6/14, as England were bowled out for 93 (36.2 overs), after having fallen to 37/7. Australia initially suffered a collapse just as dramatic, falling to 39/6, before Gilmour (28 from 28 balls, 5 fours) brought them home in a fantastic all-round performance. The West Indies won the toss and sent New Zealand in to bat first. New Zealand batted well against the bowling at first, reaching 98/1. However, when captain Glenn Turner (36"
"to become a regular event and expand each year with additional cricket nations being represented. However, the popularity of the event did not take off and it was not held again in subsequent years. Craig Spearman (captain for game 1), Jacob Oram (captain for games 2 & 3), Mark Douglas, Bevan Griggs, Brent Hefford, Jamie How, David Kelly, Mathew Sinclair, Andrew Schwass, Ben Smith, Glen Sulzberger, Greg Todd, Ewen Thompson & Gareth West. Coach: Dipak Patel. Dale Benkenstein (captain), Ahmed Amla, Eldine Baptiste, Kyle Bender, Goolam Bodi, Mark Bruyns, Gary Gilder, Jon Kent, Ashraf Mall, Errol Stewart, Andrew Tweedie, Doug"
"did not play another first-class game that season, though he did make a handful of appearances in the Refuge Assurance League. Smith went on the 1990-91 Under-19 tour to New Zealand, and played in all five of their matches (two ""ODIs"" and three ""Tests""). He made no real impression with the bat, with a top score of only 44, but had some success as a bowler, taking the wicket of future New Zealand senior team captain Stephen Fleming on three occasions in the ""Tests"". Back in England, he had a reasonable 1991 season, making 674 first-class runs at an average"
"a Test and ODI series against Australia who had toured Zimbabwe for the first time. After the single Test match in South Africa the South Africans travelled to Zimbabwe and played a return Test match at Harare South Africa won the Test match and Zimbabwe finished last in the ODI tournament. At the end of the ODI tournament England travelled to Zimbabwe to play four ODIs against Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe team was captained by Alistair Campbell. This was Campbell's last Test as captain of Zimbabwe; he resigned a week after the Test match and was replaced, initially in an interim"
"over payments in 2013.And had focused on becoming a professional Golfer.However in 2015 he made a surprise U-turn to play for Zimbabwe again and was selected for Pakistan tour. Cremer was appointed as the interim captain of Zimbabwe team and they played first match under Cremer against India on June 2016. Despite loss all 3 ODIs against India, Zimbabwe won first T20I by 2 wickets, which was first victory under Cremer. Next, Zimbabwe played another home series against New Zealand, which was also whitewashed by New Zealand 2–0. However, prior to Sri Lanka test tour, former Zimbabwean cricketer Heath Streak"
"debut, though Brasher had been Australia's fullback in the 1992 World Cup Final at the famous Wembley Stadium (at the time, tests and World Cup games were counted separately in a players records). Although the name had been used for 86 years, this was the first test other than during a Kangaroo Tour where the Australian team was officially called The Kangaroos. In the French team's first test in Australia since 1990 and in what would prove to be Australian captain Mal Meninga's final test in Australia after announcing that he would retire at the end of 1994, the Australian"
"the wickets themselves and not leaving opportunities for Zampa to stand out. Australia played a Test series in India in early 2017, and former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming touted him as a possible addition to Australia's squad given his ability to bowl well on Indian pitches, but he was not included in the squad. Instead, Zampa continued playing in the Sheffield Shield and had his first five-wicket haul in a first-class innings when he took career-best figures of 6/62 in the first innings against Queensland before taking another four wickets in the second innings to accomplish his first ten-wicket"
"Great Britain and France, suffering only one loss (against Great Britain in the First Test at Wembley, just as they had done in 1990), and remained undefeated against British club outfits in a streak stretching back to the 1978 tour. The team was coached by Bob Fulton who was making his fourth Kangaroo tour (1973 and 1978 as a player, the latter as captain, and 1990 as coach). Team captain Mal Meninga created history by becoming the first and so far only player to make four tours as a player. He also became the first player to captain consecutive tours."
"sparked a rejuvenation of Australian cricket, which would see them rise to replace the West Indies as the world's predominant Test cricket team by the mid-1990s, and break the record for consecutive test match victories by the end of that decade. In contrast, the one-sided nature of the series led to David Gower standing down as captain, and saw him replaced with Graham Gooch prior to the next series against the West Indies in the Caribbean. The England side went on a down turn, and despite featuring as losing finalists in the 1992 Cricket World Cup three years later, struggled"
"Africa in which the team were booed off the field by England's Barmy Army. It was later announced, on 19 April 2007, that his 8-year tenure as coach was to end following England's final Super 8 match against the West Indies on Saturday 21 April 2007. England's test record improved almost as soon as Fletcher took over in 1999, however the fortunes of the one-day side plummeted under Fletcher and the only major success in one day cricket under the Fletcher era came a mere three months before his exit, as England won the Commonwealth Bank Series by defeating Australia"
"Test series in South Africa at 1–1. On 2 April 2011, India won the 2011 Cricket World Cup by defeating Sri Lanka in the final, thus becoming the third team after West Indies and Australia to win the World Cup twice, the previous win being in 1983. Gautam Gambhir and the skipper Dhoni led the way with 97 and 91* respectively. India also became the first team to win the World Cup on home soil. India were whitewashed 4–0 in away Test series by England in August 2011 due to which England replaced India as the No. 1 Test team"
"team. They are the only touring team to play a full Test series in Australia without defeat. In 1969-70 Australia were overwhelmed by South Africa in their last series until 1994. The 1970 South African tour of England was cancelled due to the Basil d'Oliveira Affair and concerns over anti-apartheid demonstrations that had led to barbed wire at Lord's. Rather than send an unprepared team to Australia a Rest of the World XI was created mostly from overseas cricketers playing in the County Championship, managed by Freddie Brown, captained by Gary Sobers, and including the South Africans Eddie Barlow, Graeme"
"(against touring England at Port Elizabeth), becoming the third test nation. In 1970, the ICC voted to suspend South Africa from international Cricket indefinitely because of its government's policy of apartheid, an overtly racist policy, which led them to play only against the white nations (England, Australia, New Zealand), and field only white players. This decision excluded players such as Graeme Pollock from partaking in international Test Cricket. It would also cause the emigration of future stars like Tony Greig, Allan Lamb and Robin Smith, who all played for England, and Kepler Wessels, who initially played for Australia, before returning"
"unsettle the team, and was scrapped. Following this decision, Australia won three of the last five matches, but failed to qualify for the finals for only the third time in 23 years. In their final match, Australia needed a win and a bonus point against South Africa as New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming, in retaliation to Waugh's tactics in the World Cup, had conceded a bonus point to South Africa in the previous match. The team's performance caused a reaction similar that of 1997. With an eye toward the next World Cup, the selectors dropped the Waugh brothers and handed"
"by ""ESPNcricinfo"" and ""CricketArchive"" as first-class fixtures: The four minor games are listed in ""italics"". England and India played three Tests between June and August. England won the series 1–0 with two matches drawn: Mainstays of the England team who each played in all three Tests were captain Wally Hammond, opening batsmen Len Hutton and Cyril Washbrook, middle order batsman Denis Compton and opening pace bowler Alec Bedser. For the first Test at Lord's, England had only three debutants compared with India's six. Bedser and batting all-rounder Jack Ikin were the only ""new"" players in that they had made two"
"from an unimpressive two test series win (one win, one draw) against France played in New Zealand prior to the three test series against the Kangaroos. Captaining his country was Canberra's tough prop-forward John Lomax, who had been given the captaincy for the series against France at the expense of long time captain Gary Freeman. Lomax however was injured early in the first test against Australia at Suncorp Stadium, ruling him out for 10 weeks and the captaincy fell to Freeman for the rest of the game and series. With Freeman and Australian captain Brad Fittler both playing for Penrith"
"hand Australia an innings victory, Keith Fletcher (51) top-scoring for England. Graham Gooch, on Test debut, scored a pair. England captain Denness scored 3 and 8, and was dropped from the side before the second Test, to be replaced as captain by Tony Greig. Dennis Lillee's four-wicket opening spell reduced England to 49/4 before David Steele (50), on debut, bailed England out. Steele set a platform for more positive contributions from new England captain Tony Greig (96) and Alan Knott (69), with Bob Woolmer (33), also on debut, shoring up the tail. In reply, John Snow reduced Australia to 37/3"
"Waugh's retirement at the beginning of 2004 following the drawn home series against India, Ponting assumed the Test captaincy. Since 1997 the Australian team has not always had the same captain for Tests and for ODIs, with Mark Taylor and Steve Waugh being dropped from the ODI team whilst still the Test captain. Ponting started with a 3–0 clean sweep of the Test series in Sri Lanka. Ponting brought Symonds into the Test team on the back of strong ODI form, rather than first-class cricket, replacing Simon Katich, who had scored a century and unbeaten fifty in the last Test."