Iain O'Brien

Iain O'Brien

Iain O'Brien at the University Oval, Dunedin, New Zealand
Personal information
Full name	Iain Edward O'Brien
Born	(1976-07-10) 10 July 1976 (age 48) Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm fast medium
International information
National side	New Zealand (2005–2009)
Test debut (cap 229)	10 March 2005 v Australia
Last Test	11 December 2009 v Pakistan
ODI debut (cap 147)	20 February 2008 v England
Last ODI	14 March 2009 v India
T20I debut (cap 38)	15 February 2009 v Australia
Last T20I	6 June 2009 v Scotland
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2000/01–2009/10	Wellington
2009	Leicestershire
2010	Middlesex
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA Matches 22 10 91 58 Runs scored 219 3 756 99 Batting average 7.55 – 8.68 24.75 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 Top score 31 3* 44 19* Balls bowled 4,394 453 16,845 2,842 Wickets 73 14 322 75 Bowling average 33.27 34.85 26.06 31.41 5 wickets in innings 1 0 14 2 10 wickets in match 0 0 1 0 Best bowling 6/75 3/68 8/55 5/35 Catches/stumpings 7/– 1/– 17/– 9/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 31 January 2012

Iain Edward O'Brien (born 10 July 1976) is a former New Zealand cricketer, who played 22 Tests, 10 ODIs and 4 T20Is. A pace bowler, he took 73 test wickets with best figures of 6 for 75 against West Indies in 2008. He played first class cricket for Wellington, Leicestershire County Cricket Club and Middlesex County Cricket Club.

He retired from all cricket in January 2012 due to chronic injury problems.^[1]