Stephen Fleming

Stephen Fleming

ONZM
Fleming in 2011
Personal information
Full name
Stephen Paul Fleming
Born (1973-04-01) 1 April 1973 (age 51)
Christchurch, New Zealand
Height188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium-slow
RoleTop-order batsman
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 188)19 March 1994 v India
Last Test22 March 2008 v England
ODI debut (cap 88)25 March 1994 v India
Last ODI24 April 2007 v Sri Lanka
ODI shirt no.7
T20I debut (cap 3)17 February 2005 v Australia
Last T20I26 December 2006 v Sri Lanka
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1991/92–1999/00Canterbury
2000/01–2008/09Wellington
2001Middlesex
2003Yorkshire
2005–2007Nottinghamshire
2008Chennai Super Kings
Head coaching information
YearsTeam
2009–2015, 2018–presentChennai Super Kings
2015–2019Melbourne Stars
2016–2017Rising Pune Supergiant
2022-presentJoburg Super Kings
2023-presentTexas Super Kings
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 111 280 247 460
Runs scored 7,172 8,037 16,409 14,019
Batting average 40.06 32.40 43.87 35.13
100s/50s 9/46 8/49 35/93 22/86
Top score 274* 134* 274* 139*
Balls bowled 29 102 35
Wickets 1 0 2
Bowling average 28.00 15.50
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 1/8 1/3
Catches/stumpings 171/– 133/– 340/– 225/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 4 May 2017
Medal record
Representing  New Zealand
Men's Cricket
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Kuala Lumpur List-A cricket
ICC Champions Trophy
Winner 2000 Kenya

Stephen Paul Fleming ONZM (born 1 April 1973) is a cricket coach and former captain of the New Zealand national cricket team. He was a left-handed opening batter and an occasional right arm slow medium bowler. He is New Zealand's second-most capped Test cricketer with 111 appearances. He is also the team's longest-serving and most successful captain with 28 test victories and led the team to win the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy, the team's first International Cricket Council trophy. Fleming captained New Zealand in the first ever Twenty20 International against Australia in 2005.

Fleming retired from international cricket on 26 March 2008. He played in the inaugural season of the Indian Premier League for Chennai Super Kings and became the team's coach in 2009. He is the team's current head coach and has coached them to five IPL and two Champions League T20 titles. He also serves as the head coach of other Super Kings franchises, Joburg Super Kings in the SA20 and Texas Super Kings in Major League Cricket. He served as the coach of Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash League from 2015 to 2019. Fleming was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to cricket, in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours.