BRENDON MCCULLUM -BIOGRAPHY, NEWS, AGE, PHOTOS & NET WORTH

He currently holds the record for the quickest test century, which he achieved on his final outing for the Whites. In just 54 balls against Australia, he reached his century.

With 2140 runs, he was the top scorer for New Zealand in the T2os. His countryman Martin Guptill later outperformed him.

Up till he stopped playing, he had the most centuries, fours, the fifties, and sixes in T20Is.

With 107 sixes, McCullum continues to retain the record for most sixes in test matches. Adam Gilchrist is second with 100 sixes.

He achieved the first-ever test triple tonne in February 2014, making him a Kiwi. At Hamilton, he defeated India and scored 302.

Brendon McCullum held the record for amassing the most runs in the T20 format at the time of his retirement. With 2,140 runs under his belt, McCullum was around 500 runs ahead of Martin Guptill, his counterpart and the runner-up on the list of top run scorers.

Additionally, in the game’s smallest version at the time, he had the most fifties, centuries, sixes, and fours.

Against a well-balanced squad like India in February 2014, McCullum became the first New Zealander to score a triple tonne (302 off 559 deliveries) in test cricket.

When McCullum beat his own “fastest 50 in World Cup” mark, he entered the record books once more. McCullum broke his own 20-ball-50 record against Canada at the 2007 World Cup by scoring 50 runs in just 18 balls at the 2015 World Cup.

In his final test match, McCullum broke Sir Vivian Richards’ 30-year record for the fastest test century by scoring an incredible century off just 54 deliveries against Australia.

McCullum’s test career came to an end with a staggering total of 107 sixes. Notably, Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist previously held the record with 100 sixes.

Brendon McCullum became the first New Zealand batsman to score a triple century in 2014 when he scored 302 runs in the third innings of the second test against India at Wellington’s Basin Reserve. He and BJ Watling shared a 352-run partnership, then a record sixth-wicket stand, saving New Zealand from an innings defeat. McCullum finished the innings with 680/8d, New Zealand’s highest-ever innings and the highest-ever third innings in Test cricket history.

During the second test against Pakistan, McCullum took his first-ever test wicket, a caught-and-bowled of Sarfraz Ahmed. On November 29, 2014, McCullum scored a century against the same opposition on day 2 of the third test, after both teams decided to call off play the day before as a tribute to Phillip Hughes, and hand-written P.H. under each player’s squad number as an additional mark of respect. He was bowled out for 202 after hitting eleven sixes in his innings, a New Zealand opening batsman record. Two years after his debut as captain of New Zealand, in which the team was bowled out for a meagre 45, the Black Caps regained their respectability.

McCullum scored 195 in the first innings of the Boxing Day Test at Hagley Oval, becoming the first New Zealander to reach 1000 test runs in a calendar year (1164 at the end of the match, with Kane Williamson at 929), and the fastest test century (in 74 balls), breaking his own record set against Pakistan in Sharjah. He fell 5 runs short of his fourth 200+ score of the year. His 33 test sixes in a single calendar year are also a world record. It should also be noted that New Zealand only played nine test matches in 2014.

He also contributed to New Zealand scoring 429/7 on day one, the most runs scored by the Kiwis in a single day of test cricket. It ended with an 8-wicket win, giving the team 5 test victories out of 9 in 2014, the most in a calendar year. He also finished the year with a triple century and two double centuries, becoming only the third person in history to do so, following Donald Bradman and Michael Clarke.

McCullum returned to Basin Reserve on January 3, 2015, where he scored his triple-century against India. Despite a 2-ball duck on a green pitch and three errors as a fielder, he was given a key to Wellington, the symbolic equivalent of “Honorary Citizen,” in recognition of his heroics the previous year, becoming the third person to receive the honor after Wellington-born Sir Peter Jackson and Sir Richard Taylor, who were recognized by the city for their work on the Lord of the Rings films.
He was awarded the Sir Richard Hadlee Medal for his efforts during the 2014-15 season.

In August 2019, he was named head coach of both the Trinbago Knight Riders and the Kolkata Knight Riders.  Trinbago Knight Riders won their fourth CPL title under his leadership in 2020.

He was named the England cricket team’s Test format head coach on May 12, 2022. His first assignment was a three-match home series against his home country, New Zealand, which England won by five wickets at Lord’s. He then led the team to a second five-wicket win at Trent Bridge, a batting-friendly venue. McCullum’s coaching was evident in Joe Root’s brilliant 176 in the first innings, as well as the bowling in the second innings, with McCullum advising England captain Ben Stokes on positions. The series’ clean sweep was completed with a 7-wicket victory in the third Test at Headingley.

Following that, England defeated India at Edgbaston, chasing down a national record 378 for the loss of only three wickets. Andrew Miller, the UK editor of ESPNcricinfo, dubbed the new attacking, positive intention approach instituted by McCullum and captain Ben Stokes BazBall, after McCullum’s nickname. The phrase has gained popularity in the wider media.

From July to September 2022, the South African cricket team visited England to play three Test matches, three One Day International (ODI) matches, and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. The series was won by England 2-1.
During England’s winter 2022 tour of Pakistan, he led the team to the first-ever 3-0 home series whitewash of Pakistan.